Fulminant hepatitis by concurrent acute HBV-HCV infection successfully treated with antivirals while seeking for an orthotopic liver transplantation

Mastroianni, Antonio; Greco, Sonia; Mauro, Maria Vittoria; Manfredi, Roberto

doi:10.21608/mjvh.2022.279332

Fulminant hepatitis by concurrent acute HBV-HCV infection successfully treated with antivirals while seeking for an orthotopic liver transplantation

Document Type : Original article

Authors

Antonio Mastroianni ¹
Sonia Greco ²
Maria Vittoria Mauro ³
Roberto Manfredi ⁴

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Annunziata-Mariano Santo-S. Barbara Hospital, Cosenza, Italy

² Department of Infectious Diseases, Annunziata-Mariano Santo-S. Barbara Hospital, Cosenza, Italy.

³ Department of Microbiology, Annunziata-Mariano Santo-S. Barbara Hospital, Cosenza, Italy.

⁴ Dept of Infectious Diseases, University of Bologna, S. Orsola Hospital

10.21608/mjvh.2022.279332

Abstract

Background: A severe, near-fatal liver failure due to a concomitant acute HBV-HCV infection has been controlled and later fully resolved from a clinical and a virological point of view, by a prompt and appropriate antiviral treatment.

Keywords

Fulminant hepatitis
concomitant HBV-HCV infection
entecavir
sofosbuvir-velpatasvir
favorable outcome

Fulminant hepatitis by concurrent acute HBV-HCV infection successfully treated with antivirals while seeking for an orthotopic liver transplantation

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Volume 7.1, Issue 1
December 2022
Pages 13-14