Infective Hepatitis and Marrow Aplasia

Fatal marrow aplasia associated with non-A non-B hepatitis.

swellings have not been reported. The condition is a multisystem disease with a mortality rate of up to 63%, death being due to either respiratory failure or the development of a malignant lymphoma.' An immunological basis for the disease has been suggested because of extensive immunological dysfunction found in a recent study of six patients.3 The aetiology is unknown but, interestingly, altho...

Infective Hepatitis

This disease is also known as ' epidemic Patarrhal jaundice', 'acute infective hepatitis' ari(l ' epidemic infective hepatitis.' During this war, great interest lias been sho-tyn in this disease by the medical profession owing 'to various problems presented which had J? be solved quickly. It broke out in epidemic *orm among the Middle East forces, affecting n?t only the Allies but the enemy as ...

Infective Hepatitis and Catarrhal Jaundice

Infective Hepatitis among Indians

The cases on which this paper is based were 258 in number. All the caees were treated in hospital during; the period 15th May, 1943, to 30th April, 1945. Only those cases have been considered which were admitted from the local Indian units. They were all Indian males. Combatants were admitted in much larger proportions (84 per cent) than non-combatants (16 per cent), though they were all living...

Acute Infective Hepatitis

In 39 unselected patients with acute infective hepatitis diagnosed on clinical, epidemiological, and pathological findings, smooth muscle (S.M.) antibody was found in 87% and hepatitis-associated antigen in 33%. The incidence of S.M. antibody was highest during the first month after the onset of symptoms, and the antibody was preponderantly IgM at this stage. S.M. antibody and hepatitis-associa...