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OBJECTIVE Association between acute pancreatitis and acute viral hepatitis (AVH) is more frequent than previously thought. Most cases are hepatitis A or B virus related. Only 6 cases of acute pancreatitis with acute hepatitis E virus (HEV)-related hepatitis has been reported so far. METHODS We

BACKGROUND An increasing incidence of endemic hepatitis E (HE) has been reported in developed countries. Thus, an evaluation of the clinical characteristics of the disease and the utility of the current diagnostic methods is warranted. METHODS Fifty-one adult acute patients with HE hospitalized in a

Lobar atrophy is a rare morphologic change of the liver. We describe a 73-year-old woman with mild liver dysfunction and history of Sjögren's syndrome who had right hepatic lobar atrophy. Serum biochemistry levels were as follows: albumin, 4.5 g/dl; total bilirubin, 1.0 mg/dl; alanine

Cholestatic hepatitis is a life-threatening recurrent pattern of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in immunosuppressed patients, for which curative treatment has not yet been established. We report the successful treatment of cholestatic hepatitis in a 59-year-old man who had undergone right lobe living donor

Fenofibrate-induced acute or chronic hepatitis is rare, and only 11 reports from French, Italian or Spanish literature have been published up to date. We report a case of fenofibrate-induced acute cholestatic hepatitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first one reported in Taiwan. A

BACKGROUND In Hong Kong, Chinese medicine is popular and coexists with orthodox Western medicine. Despite a long history of use, many herbs have not been submitted to rigorous scientific testing and there are reports of hepatotoxicity. We describe a woman who developed acute hepatitis after drinking

A 37-year-old woman presented with increasing abdominal pain and jaundice. Six weeks before admission, she developed persistent diarrhea and jaundice of the skin. She also bruised easily, and her gums bled. In the subsequent weeks, her appetite decreased, she was fatigued, and she had nausea,

Transurethral resection (TUR) syndrome, resulting from dilutional hyponatraemia for excessive absorption of irrigating fluid, represents the most relevant complication of transurethral resection of prostate (TURP). Ethanol is used as a tracer in the irrigant solution to monitor fluid absorption with

Drug induced liver injury (DILI) can result either from dose-dependent direct hepatotoxicity or from an unpredictable dose-independent idiosyncratic reaction. Incidence of idiosyncratic DILI is estimated to be approximately 10-15 per 100,000 patient years. Here we report an extremely rare case of

A 58-year old Caucasian female has compensated hepatitis C related cirrhosis. Her surveillance ultrasound showed hypodense liver nodules and subsequent triple phase CT scan showed five tumor nodules with diameters ranging from 3-5cms involving both hepatic lobes. The nodules showed characteristic