REPORT: PATHOGENESIS, DIAGNOSTICS, TREATMENT AND PRINCIPLES OF PROFILAXIS OF
THE ENTERAL VIRUS HEPATITIS (A and E)
Sajid Mehmood Adnan Akram Aftab Ahmed
Accident & Emergency Department.
Royal Infirmary Liverpool.
United Kingdom
Department of Infectious...
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REPORT: PATHOGENESIS, DIAGNOSTICS, TREATMENT AND PRINCIPLES OF PROFILAXIS OF
THE ENTERAL VIRUS HEPATITIS (A and E)
Sajid Mehmood Adnan Akram Aftab Ahmed
Accident & Emergency Department.
Royal Infirmary Liverpool.
United Kingdom
Department of Infectious Diseases.
University Hospital Riga.
Latvia
Department of Infectious Diseases.
Kaunas Medical University Hospital.
Kaunas.
Lithuania
sajid@infekcijas.
eu adnan@infekcijas.
eu aftab@infekcijas.
eu
VHA- RNA picano virus, children and young adults feacal oral route, no carrier state, do not
lead to chronic liver disease
I.
P- 15-14 days
Clinical- Prodromal/preicteric phases lasts up to 2 wks, viramia leads to influenza like symptoms
during the prodromal phase – mild fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malaise, upper abdominal
discomfort.
After 1-2 wks patient becomes icteric (non icteric can be).
As the jaundice worsen urine becomes dark and feaces becomes pale because of cholistasis (
intra hepatic).
10 % of cases liver moderately
Less