Etiology and Clinical Characteristics of Acute Cytomegalovirus Hepatitis in Children at the National Children’s Hospital | Zendy

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Etiology and Clinical Characteristics of Acute Cytomegalovirus Hepatitis in Children at the National Children’s Hospital

Author(s) -

Nguyễn Văn Lâm,

Võ Mạnh Hùng,

Nguyễn Phương Thảo,

Phạm Nhật An

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

tạp chí nghiên cứu và thực hành nhi khoa

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2734-9179

pISSN - 2615-9198

DOI - 10.47973/jprp.v2i5.159

Subject(s) - medicine , jaundice , cytomegalovirus , etiology , acute hepatitis , rash , hepatitis , viral hepatitis , pediatrics , hepatitis a , prospective cohort study , viral disease , immunology , virus , herpesviridae

Aim: study of clinical and investigation characteristics of acute CMV hepatitis in children at the National Children’s Hospital. Subjects and Methods study: Prospective descriptive study on 42 patients were diagnosed acute CMVhepatitis at the National Children’s Hospital from 10/2015 to 9/2016 Result: In 57 cases were identified acute viral hepatitis, the prevalence of CMV hepatitis is 73% (42 cases). Prominent clinical symptoms of patients with CMV hepatitis were jaundice, yellow eyes (86%), hepatomegaly (64%), spleenomegaly (24%), itchy rash (12%), ascites (7%). Most of cases had viral load in the blood over 5000 copies/ml (92%).

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