viral hepatitis
Sign in to saveAlso 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- Viral Hepatitis.Clinical obstetrics and gynecology · 2025
- Management of viral hepatitis A, C, D and E in pregnancy.Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology · 2020
- Viral hepatitis vaccination during pregnancy.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2016
- Viral hepatitis.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2002
- Viral hepatitis.NCHS data brief · 2010
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.