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Hepatitis E: What’s New?

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HEV Diagnosis<br />

General approach<br />

■ Clinical suspicion in acute or chronic hepatitis that cannot be explained by<br />

other causes, particularly in the setting of known risk factors.<br />

■ Suspected among patients with rapidly progressive liver disease in pregnant<br />

women, patients with underlying CLD, solid organ transplant recipients, and<br />

hematologic malignancies.<br />

■<br />

Patients presenting with an elevation in aminotransferases & neurological<br />

manifestations.<br />

Wedemeyer H, et al.Gastroenterology 2012; 142:1388.<br />

Pawlotsky JM. Lancet 2014; 384:1729.

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