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Fulminant hepatitis failure in adults and children from a Public Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases - 1 Oct 2009
Santos Damião Carlos Moraes dos, Martinho José Manoel da Silva Gomes, Pacheco-Moreira Lucio Filgueiras, Araújo Cristina Carvalho Viana de, Oliveira Barbara Cristina Euzebio Pereira Dias de, Lago Barbara Vieira, Pinto Marcelo Alves, Paula Vanessa Salete de
Abstract excerpt
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 the outcome of these infections are poorly understood. In the present study, viral load and genotyping determining...
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