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Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam
; 46(2): 122-5, 2016 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28704018
ABSTRACT
We describe a clinical case of a kidney transplant patient who presented a sudden elevation of his liver function tests. Once we ruled out the most frequent causes of acute hepatitis, serum tests for Hepatitis E were performed. Hepatitis E virus RNA was detected in blood and stools. After six months the virus was still detected. Ribavirin treatment was initiated with normalization of the serum aminotransferases and sustained virology response was achieved.