Acute viral hepatitis prevalence in the last five years at „Sf. Cuv. Parascheva“ Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital, Galati

. Acute viral hepatitis is a major pathology under national and international surveillance due to both lethal or chronic evolution. Objectives. To evaluate the prevalence of acute viral hepatitis in the last five years in Galati. Methods. Retrospective study based on patients dossiers addmited for acute viral hepatitis between 01.01.2010-31.12.2014 in Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital from Galati. Results. The decreasing prevalence of acute hepatitis of 1.7 times was based on reduction of acute hepatitis B cases; the year 2013 has shown an epidemic increase of acute hepatitis A cases, similar to the national data. Acute hepatitis C had the same prevalence over the years. For 1/3 of cases no A, B, C etiology was found. Correlation (p < 0.0001) between etiology and patients age was found. Acute hepatitis B has shown the most severe cases due to jaundice and citolysis intensity. No differences between gender was found but the illness was more frequent in urban area. Conclusions. Our study has shown the decreasing hepatitis B prevalence while hepatitis C had the similar prevalence, as the national trends.