Non-A, non-B post-transfusion hepatitis: looking back in the second decade
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Patients with non-A, non-B post-transfusion hepatitis may often survive 10 years or more with the disease. This form of hepatitis is transmitted in contaminated blood products. Eighty patients diagnosed with non-A, non-B post-transfusion hepatitis in the 1970s were reevaluated between 1989 and 1992. Forty percent of the patients had symptoms during the early stages of the disease, but none later developed severe symptoms associated with inflammation of the liver. Of the 8 patients who developed liver failure, seven had chronic hepatitis. None of these patients demonstrated any signs of liver failure until six years after diagnosis. The patients had an 18% risk of developing cirrhosis of the liver 16 years after diagnosis. This risk was slightly higher for patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 1993
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Update in gastroenterology
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Important research on gastroenterology published in 2002 is reviewed. Topics include Barret esophagus, Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis C, and Crohn's disease.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2003
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