Acute exacerbation in chronic hepatitis B virus infection

A case of an acute exacerbation of liver injury in a chronic HBV infected young male is reported. The correlation between the severe symptomatic hepatitis is done with the histopathologic findings of extense areas of bridging necrosis on the Iwer biopsy. The serological pattern for markers of HBV (H...

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Main Authors: Marcio Vieira Santos, Maria Irma Seixas Duarte, Antonio Alci Barone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1996-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821996000300009&lng=en&tlng=en