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Acute Hepatitis Causes

Aka: Acute Hepatitis Causes, Hepatitis Differential Diagnosis in Acute Cases, Acute Hepatitis
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  1. See Also
    1. Hepatotoxin
    2. Liver Function Test Abnormality
    3. Fulminant Hepatic Failure
  2. Causes: Infection
    1. Bacterial hepatitis
      1. Leptospirosis
        1. Associated with animal or tick borne exposure
      2. Q Fever
        1. Relapsing Fever and myalgias
        2. Alkaline Phosphatase significantly increased out of proportion to transaminases
      3. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
        1. Jaundice is prominent
      4. Secondary Syphilis
      5. Typhoid Fever
      6. Overwhelming infection (Sepsis)
    2. Viral Hepatitis
      1. Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
        1. Mild hepatitis
      2. Mononucleosis (EBV)
        1. Mild hepatitis
      3. Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
        1. Severe hepatitis (especially in immunocompromised patients)
      4. Varicella
        1. Severe hepatitis (especially in immunocompromised patients)
      5. Hepatitis A
      6. Hepatitis B
      7. Hepatitis C
      8. Hepatitis D
      9. Hepatitis E
    3. Parasite (e.g. Toxocariasis)
      1. Toxocariasis
        1. Associated with pneumonitis, Leukocytosis with Eosinophil predominance
      2. Liver Trematodes (liver flukes)
  3. Causes: Autoimmune Conditions
    1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
    2. Autoimmune Hepatitis
      1. Women predominate in a bimodal distribution (ages 15 to 25 and 45 to 60 years old)
  4. Causes: Medications and drugs
    1. See Hepatotoxin
    2. Alcohol Abuse
    3. Carbon tetrachloride
  5. References
    1. (2004) MMWR Recomm Rep 53(RR-4): 1-33
    2. Matheny (2012) Am Fam Physician 86(11): 1027-34

Acute hepatitis (C0267797)

Concepts Disease or Syndrome (T047)
ICD10 B17.9
SnomedCT 37871000
English Acute hepatitis, NOS, Hepatitis acute, HEPATITIS ACUTE, Acute hepatitis NOS, Hepatitis;acute, hepatitis acute, Acute hepatitis, Acute hepatitis (disorder), hepatitis; acute, acute; hepatitis, Acute Hepatitis, acute hepatitis
Italian Epatite acuta
Japanese 急性肝炎, ｷｭｳｾｲｶﾝｴﾝ
Czech Akutní hepatitida
Hungarian Acut hepatitis
Dutch acuut; hepatitis, hepatitis; acuut, hepatitis acuut
Spanish hepatitis aguda (trastorno), hepatitis aguda, Hepatitis aguda
Portuguese Hepatite aguda
French Hépatite aiguë
German akute Hepatitis
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Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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