[Severe acute hepatitis C with spontaneous cure].
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is responsible for 20% of all cases of acute hepatitis. However, acute C infection isn't usually recognized in clinical practice, once most of the patients are asymptomatic and, in rare cases, the acute infection can progress to a fulminant form. In 40% of HCV infections, the mode of transmission persist unknown. Nosocomial transmission is, nowadays, recognized as a way of infection. Herein, we describe a female patient, with 54 years old, with an acute C hepatitis, symptomatic, with hepatic failure. She had no risky behaviours, just a previous hospital admission 5 weeks before. The patient was kept under surveillance with clinical improvement: at 10(th) week HCV viremia was negative.
Serviços de Gastrenterologia e de Anatomia Patológica, Hospital São João/Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Margarida
M
Marques
Hélder
H
Cardoso
Ana Maria Horta
AM
Vale
Joanne
J
Lopes
Guilherme
G
Macedo
D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012720:Severity of Illness Index