BACKGROUND Drugs and herbal products can induce autoimmune hepatitis. We assessed frequency and clinical outcomes of patients suffering from drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis. METHODS All patients with drug-induced liver injury admitted between 2000 and 2011 were retrospectively studied. Diagnoses of drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis and idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis were made according to ...

Hepatitis C infection is a leading etiology of hepatic dysfunction and major indication for liver transplantation due to the development fibrosis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma. Nonalcoholic fatty disease (NAFLD) and, specifically, its subtype nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) rising cause disease. It predicted surpass hepatitis as transplant. The introduction direct-acting antivirals (...

Enteric fever is frequently associated with abnormal liver function tests [1,2], and can mimic other infections such as malaria and amoebiasis. Severe hepatic involvement with clinical features of acute hepatitis (i.e. typhoid hepatitis) is rare. We sought to compare the clinical and laboratory features and outcome of patients with enteric fever with and without biochemical liver abnormalities....

background hepatitis b is the most common chronic viral infection in humans and the most common cause of death among viral hepatitis. as 70% to 80% of chronic hepatitis cases are caused by hbv in iran, this virus alone is considered the most important cause of liver diseases and the major cause of mortality arising from viral hepatitis cases in iran. objectives we planned this study to determin...

 All patients should be screened for hepatitis B before starting treatment with direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C.  Patients co-infected with hepatitis B and C who are treated with directacting antivirals should be monitored and treated according to current clinical guidelines. The recommendations from the EMA are available here: Direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C: EMA confirms r...

introduction to define the clinical features, biochemical and histological findings and outcome of three forms of autoimmune hepatitis.   materials and methods in a cross sectional study between november 2001 to january 2008 in tehran and mashhad university of medical sciences, 61 children who diagnosed as aih (40 girls and 21 boys) have been analyzed for their clinical, serological, and histol...

conclusions hepatoprotective agents combined with antiviral drugs can significantly improve liver function and liver fibrosis parameters in patients with hepatitis b. results a total of 22 randomized controlled trials encompassing 1,714 cases were considered in the meta-analysis. the obtained results indicated that the combination of antiviral drug and hepatoprotective agent was better than ant...

Introduction and Aim: Kyrgyzstan is one of the most focused countries in WHO European Region for acute viral hepatitis. The objective this study to evaluate etiology, clinical laboratory characteristics, outcomes patients with Materials Methods: This a prospective conducted on 122 hepatitis at our hospital from March 2017 June 2020. diagnosis was based standard case definition: sudden onset sym...