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Acute hepatitis E virus infection causing acute liver failure requiring living-donor liver transplantation in a non-pregnant immunocompetent woman.

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society - 1 Jun 2017

Li Iris Wai Sum, Chok Kenneth Siu Ho

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We report a rare case of acute liver failure from acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) in a non-pregnant woman without comorbidities who survived after liver transplantation. The source was likely consumption of partially cooked pig liver. HEV genotype 3 is the second most common genotype causing acute hepatitis E in developed countries. Fulminant hepatitis E rarely occurs without a risk factor, as in our patient....

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PMID: 28295889
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12699

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