40 0 0 0 OA 本邦初の妊婦に於ける3型土着株によるE型肝炎
- 著者
- 相川 達也 山縣 邦彦 宮本 久仁子 津田 文男 高橋 雅春 岡本 宏明
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本肝臓学会
- 雑誌
- 肝臓 (ISSN:04514203)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.50, no.3, pp.163-165, 2009 (Released:2009-04-08)
- 参考文献数
- 5
- 被引用文献数
- 3 3
A 35-year-old woman who was 14 weeks pregnant visited a gynecology hospital to undergo a surgical abortion. Although she was not jaundiced, and had no signs of hepatitis, liver function was abnormal (ALT, 100 IU/L; AST, 96 IU/L). The serum obtained was negative for markers of hepatitis A, B, and C viruses. However, based on the positive results of non-routine IgM/IgA anti-HEV and HEV RNA assays, the patient was occasionally diagnosed with sporadic acute hepatitis E. The HEV isolate recovered from the patient was phylogenetically close to known genotype 3 HEV strains circulating in Japan, with the highest identity of 93.2%. We believe that testing for hepatitis E should be routine in Japan, in cases of suspected viral hepatitis.
