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The porphyrias comprise a set of diseases, each representing an individual defect in one of the eight enzymes mediating the pathway of heme synthesis. The diseases are genetically distinct but have in common the overproduction of heme precursors. In the case of the acute (neurologic) porphyrias, the cause of symptoms appears to be overproduction of a ...
Bissell, D Montgomery, Wang, Bruce
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Enhanced sentinel surveillance for hepatitis B infection in 200 counties in China, 2013-2016.
Hepatitis B infection is a major public health challenge in China. Clinicians report hepatitis B cases to the National Notifiable Disease Reporting System.
Ning Miao +8 more
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Acute Viral Hepatitis in Pediatric Age Groups
Introduction: Our clinical experience showed that there has been no decrease in pediatric cases of acute viral hepatitis in Kathmandu. The objective of the study was to analyze the etiology, clinical features, laboratory parameters, sonological findings ...
Sudhamshu KC +3 more
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First report of acute autochthonous hepatitis E in Portugal
Hepatitis E infection is usually a self-limiting disease. In industrialized countries, sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections have been described; their number seems to be increasing in European countries.
Vitor Duque +4 more
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Immunological aspects of persistent hepatitis B in children [PDF]
We studied the immunological status of 203 children having persistence Hepatitis B (positive HBsAg) ranging in age from 6 to 14 years in Semarang Municipality.
Notoatmojo, Harsoyo
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Salmonella Hepatitis: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Disease
Typhoid fever is a very common infectious disease of tropics, associated with high morbidity and mortality. Typhoid fever is often associated with hepatomegaly and mildly deranged liver functions; a clinical picture of acute hepatitis is a rare ...
Ritu Karoli +3 more
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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and a major cause of ill health. Without treatment, the mortality rate of TB is approximately 50%; with treatment, most patients with TB can be cured.
Kuang-Ming Liao +5 more
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We examined correlates of antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity (ANA+) in individuals with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and the effect of positivity on clinical outcome of HCV. Pretreatment sera from 645 patients from three centres in Sweden
Marshall, S +22 more
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Examination of the risk of reinfection with hepatitis C among injecting drug users who have been tested in Glasgow [PDF]
Unsafe injecting practices put injecting drug users (IDUs) at repeat exposure to infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). It has not yet been determined if spontaneously clearing one's primary infection influences the risk of reinfection; our aim was ...
Hutchinson, Sharon +5 more
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Acute Pancreatitis associated with Acute Hepatitis A in an Old Aged Patient
Acute pancreatitis caused by acute hepatitis A is extremely rare, with only a small number of cases in young adults having been reported. This paper presents a 74-year-old female patient with an acute abdomen, which proved to be acute pancreatitis with ...
Keepyung Hong +3 more
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