| dc.creator | Ibarra V,Humberto | |
| dc.creator | Riedemann G,Stella | |
| dc.creator | Siegel G,Freddy | |
| dc.creator | Toledo A,Claudio | |
| dc.creator | Reinhardt V,Germán | |
| dc.date | 2001-05-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-07T15:33:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-07T15:33:07Z | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872001000500008 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/387067 | |
| dc.description | Background: Sanitary and socioeconomic changes and the identification of new causative virus, have changed the epidemiology of hepatitis in Chile. Aim: To study the natural history of acute hepatitis caused by virus A, E and non A-E in Chilean adults. Patients and methods: A special study protocol was followed for patients with a clinical picture of acute hepatitis. Anti HAV IgM, anti HBc IgM, anti HEV IgG and IgM and Anti HCV antibodies were determined by ELISA. Results: Fifty nine patients (30 male), aged 15 to 58 years old were studied. Eighty nine percent had jaundice and 50 to 70% had malaise and abdominal pain. Virus A was positive in 80%, virus E in 7%. In 14% of patients, all viral markers were negative. The evolution was typical in 78%, biphasic in 14% and cholestatic in 5%. One patient had a prolonged and one a fulminant course. Mean ALT was 1148 U/l and mean total bilirubin was 5.5 mg/dl. Seventy three percent of cases occurred during early winter and spring and 27% during summer and early autumm. Conclusions: The main etiology of acute viral hepatitis in Chile is virus A and most cases occur during the rainy season. Clinical features of hepatitis non A-E are similar to enteral transmission forms. (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129: 523-30) | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | es | |
| dc.publisher | Sociedad Médica de Santiago | |
| dc.source | Revista médica de Chile v.129 n.5 2001 | |
| dc.subject | Epidemiology | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis A virus, human | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis antibodies | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis B | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis C | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis D | |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis E | |
| dc.title | Hepatitis aguda por virus A, E y no A-E en adultos chilenos a fines de los años 90 | |
| dc.type | Artículos de revistas | |
