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Hepatit E
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an inflammation of the liver caused by infection with the hepatitis E virus
Key facts
- Specialty
- Infectious disease , Hepatology
- Symptoms
- Nausea, jaundice
- Complications
- Liver failure
- Causes
- Hepatitis E virus (HEV)
- Diagnostic method
- Blood test
- Differential diagnosis
- Hepatitis A
- Treatment
- Rest, ribavirin (if chronic)
- Frequency
- 28 million worldwide (2013)
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