complications of hepatitis A virus infection
Last reviewed 01/2018
- prolonged jaundice and/or relapses
- seen in around 15% of the patients
- cholestatic hepatitis (1)
- fulminant (acute) liver failure
- occurs in approximately 0.4% of cases
- common in patients with associated chronic hepatitis B or C
- mortality is around 40% without liver transplant (2)
- in pregnancy - increased risk of miscarriage and prematurity proportional to the severity (2)
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