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هپاتیت
Sign in to saveAlso known as hepatitides, acute and subacute liver necrosis, acute and subacute necrosis of liver, acute hepatitis, animal hepatitis, acute and subacute liver necrosis NOS, acute/subac. necrosis of liver, liveritis
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. Some people or animals with hepatitis have no symptoms, whereas others develop yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), poor appetite, vomiting, tiredness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Hepatitis is acute if it resolves within six months, and chronic if it lasts longer than six months. Acute hepatitis can resolve on its own, progress to chronic hepatitis, or (rarely) result in acute liver failure. Chronic hepatitis may progress to scarring of the liver (cirrhosis), liver failure, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue that can range from causing no symptoms at all to causing jaundice, poor appetite, vomiting, tiredness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. It matters because acute hepatitis can sometimes progress to chronic hepatitis or serious complications like liver failure, and chronic hepatitis can eventually lead to cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer.
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Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Hepatitis
- Medical condition (new).image
- Alcoholic_hepatitis.jpg
- Medical condition (new).caption
- Alcoholic hepatitis as seen with a microscope, showing fatty changes (white circles), remnants of dead liver cells, and Mallory bodies (twisted-rope shaped inclusions within some liver cells). (H&E stain)
- Medical condition (new).field
- Infectious disease, gastroenterology, hepatology
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Yellowish skin, poor appetite, abdominal pain
- Medical condition (new).complications
- Scarring of the liver, liver failure, liver cancer
- Medical condition (new).duration
- Short term or long term
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Viral infections (Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E), alcohol, drugs/toxins, autoimmune diseases, metabolic disorders
- Medical condition (new).prevention
- Vaccination (for viral hepatitis), avoiding excessive alcohol
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Medication, liver transplant
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- > 500 million cases
- Medical condition (new).deaths
- > One million a year
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Liver inflammation, viral hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis
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Research
315,115 papers- Hepatitis A: Epidemiology, Natural History, Unusual Clinical Manifestations, and Prevention.ReviewGastroenterology clinics of North America · 2020Abutaleb A, Kottilil SDOI: 10.1016/j.gtc.2020.01.002
- Hepatitis A.ReviewLancet (London, England) · 1998Koff RSDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)01304-X
- Hepatitis A and B Infections.ReviewPrimary care · 2017Thuener JDOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2017.07.005
- Hepatitis A.Workplace health & safety · 2021Hammond SDOI: 10.1177/2165079920988687
- Viral hepatitis.ReviewTransfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 1993Zuckerman AJDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.1993.tb00099.x
- History of the Discovery of Hepatitis A Virus.ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2019Feinstone SMDOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a031740
- Hepatitis A.ReviewInfectious disease clinics of North America · 2000Kemmer NM, Miskovsky EPDOI: 10.1016/s0891-5520(05)70123-9
- Hepatitis in the individual.ReviewCanadian Medical Association journal · 1972Leevy CM, Tamburro CH, Sorrell MF et al.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Image
- Hepatitis A virus 01.jpg
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- health specialty
- hepatology
- has cause
- Hepatitis C virus
- symptoms and signs
- hepatomegaly
- Commons category
- Hepatitis
- topic's main category
- Category:Hepatitis
- afflicts
- liver
- medical examination
- liver biopsy
- has effect
- liver cirrhosis
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3095
- Commons gallery
- Hepatitis
- ICPC 2 ID
- D72
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000046
- ICD-9-CM
- 571.41
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- sofosbuvir
- anatomical location
- liver
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