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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2015

Hepatitis e virus detection in liver tissue from patients with suspected drug-induced liver injury.

Obinna Chijioke, Marion Bawohl, Erik Springer, Achim Weber

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  3. A new framework for advancing in drug-induced liver injury research. The Prospective European DILI Registry.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2023
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  5. Chronic Hepatitis E is associated with cholangitis.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2019
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Obinna ChijiokeInstitute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.
Marion BawohlInstitute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.
Erik SpringerInstitute of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Mainz , Germany.
Achim WeberInstitute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.

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Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is increasingly recognized as a cause of acute hepatitis in the industrialized world. We aimed to determine the frequency of acute HEV infection in cases of suspected drug-induced liver injury (DILI), mainly a diagnosis of exclusion. To this aim, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) liver tissues of all cases routinely processed in our institute during a 2 1/2 years period in which DILI was among the differential diagnoses (157 liver biopsies, 1 liver explant) were subjected to semi-nested RT-PCR for the detection of HEV RNA. Histopathology was re-evaluated on all cases tested positive. HEV RNA was detectable in 3 of 158 cases (2%) tested, comprising autochthonic as well as travel-related infections with genotypes 1, 3, and 4 each found once, respectively. Histopathologic findings comprised one case with subtotal hepatic necrosis and two cases of acute (cholestatic) hepatitis not distinguishable from acute hepatitis of other etiology. Thus, the overall frequency of acute HEV infection as determined by detection of HEV RNA in liver tissue is substantially increased in patients with suspected DILI compared to the healthy population, emphasizing the need to actively look for HEV infection in cases of suspected DILI. Molecular testing for HEV RNA in routinely processed FFPE liver tissues can be applied to cases with undetermined HEV status.

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drug-induced liver injuryhepatitishepatitis E virus infectionlivermolecular testing

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