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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2019

Acute and Persistent Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 and 4 Infection: Clinical Features, Pathogenesis, and Treatment.

Nassim Kamar, Sven Pischke

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biosecurity measures reducingFrontiers in veterinary science · 2024
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  3. Clinical Burden of Symptomatic HEV-3 Infection in Southern Spain.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2026
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  5. Mitochondrial and lipid metabolism rewiring during HEV infection.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  10. Differential miRNA signatures in Hepatitis E Virus Infection: Insights into acute, chronic, and pregnancy-related outcomes.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  15. Hepatitis E virus: from innate sensing to adaptive immune responses.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nassim KamarDepartment of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31059, France.
Sven PischkeDepartment of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20251, Germany.
Universität Hamburg · DEUniversité Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype (gt)3 and 4 infections are prevalent in industrialized and high-income countries. Although most HEV gt3 and gt4 infections are clinically silent, acute infection may be symptomatic in some patients. In persons with underlying liver disease and in elderly men, HEV infections may present as acute or acute-on-chronic liver failure. Chronic hepatitis may develop in immunosuppressed individuals, including transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, and persons with hematologic malignancy undergoing chemotherapy, and may progress to life-threatening liver cirrhosis. Extrahepatic manifestations of infection may include neurological and renal disease. Although there is no approved specific therapy for the treatment of acute or chronic HEV gt3 or gt4 infection, off-label use of ribavirin appears to be capable of eliminating chronic HEV infection, and may reduce disease severity in patients suffering from acute liver failure.

Indexed as

Acute DiseaseAge FactorsAnimalsAntiviral AgentsChronic DiseaseDisease Transmission, InfectiousGenotypeHepatitis EHepatitis E virusHumansImmunocompromised HostRibavirinSex FactorsTransplant RecipientsAntiviral AgentsRibavirin

Identifiers

PMID29735575
PMCPMC6601456
OpenAlexW2801896084

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