Korean J Gastroenterol.  2007 Aug;50(2):121-125.

Three Sporadic Cases of Acute Hepatitis E

• Kim DH
• Park H
• Moon SW
• Jeong JH
• Yang HS
• Kim DH
• Kim HD

Abstract

Acute hepatitis E is an endemic disease, commonly reported in Indian subcontinent, China, Africa, Central America, and so forth. It is a self-limiting disease like other acute hepatitis except in pregnant patient. Although sporadic hepatitis E is noted all over the world, most of them are associated with travel history to HEV-endemic area. In Korea, Hepatitis E is rarely reported. Moreover, sporadic acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area is very rare. We experienced three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E, without travel history. All of them presented acute hepatitis symptoms, elevated aminotransferase, and positive IgM HEV Ab. Symptoms and aminotransferase levels were normalized during hospitalization and IgM HEV Ab converted negative after 4-8 months. We report three sporadic cases of onset-acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area.

Keyword

Acute hepatitis E; IgM anti-HEV; Hepatits E virus

MeSH Terms

Acute Disease
Adult
Alanine Transaminase/analysis
Aspartate Aminotransferases/analysis
Female
Hepatitis E/*diagnosis
Humans
Male