Fulminant hepatitis failure in adults and children from a Public Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fulminant hepatitis failure in adults and children from a Public Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is characterized by massive hepatocellular injury, whose physiopathology is still unclear. Hepatitis B (HBV) is probably the most common viral cause of FHF, while hepatitis A (HAV) virus seem occurs less frequently. However, the host and viral factors that determine t...

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Main Authors: Damião Carlos Moraes dos Santos, José Manoel da Silva Gomes Martinho, Lucio Filgueiras Pacheco-Moreira, Cristina Carvalho Viana de Araújo, Barbara Cristina Euzebio Pereira Dias de Oliveira, Barbara Vieira Lago, Marcelo Alves Pinto, Vanessa Salete de Paula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Fulminant hepatitis failure
hepatitis A virus (HAV)
hepatitis B virus (HBV) and genotype and viral load
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