Authors: Özgür Harmanci İbrahim Koral Önal Osman Ersoy Bora Gürel Cenk Sökmensüer Yusuf Bayraktar
Publish Date: 2007/04/05
Volume: 52, Issue: 12, Pages: 3521-3523
Abstract
Giant cell hepatitis GCH encompasses a group of disorders with varying clinical presentations etiological factors and histological findings 1 When found in adults it is called “postinfantile giant cell hepatitis PGCH 2 this clinical picture is so rare that only about 100 cases have been reported in the English literature in the last 20 years Drugs 3 autoimmune diseases 4 and several viral infections 5 have been implicated as causes of GCHHere we present the first patient in the literature with PGCH testing positive for antibody to hepatitis E virus antiHEV but carrying some autoimmune features as well We also aimed to make a differential diagnosis between acute hepatitis E infection and autoimmune hepatitis in light of the pertinent literature
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