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viral hepatitis

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Also known as human viral hepatitis, viral hepatitis with hepatic coma, unspecified viral hepatitis with hepatic coma, viral hepatitis with hepatic coma (disorder)

liver inflammation due to a viral infection

Key facts

Specialty
Infectious diseases , gastroenterology

via Wikipedia infobox

Research

146,066 papers

via PubMed

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Encyclopedic overview

Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection. It may present in acute form as a recent infection with relatively rapid onset, or in chronic form, typically progressing from a long-lasting asymptomatic condition up to a decompensated hepatic disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

The most common causes of viral hepatitis are the five unrelated hepatotropic viruses hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. Other viruses can also cause liver inflammation, including cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, and yellow fever. There also have been scores of recorded cases of viral hepatitis caused by herpes simplex virus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “viral hepatitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.