Definition:
Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to liver marked by presence of inflammatory cells in the liver tissue.
Another potential viral cause of hepatitis has been identified, known as hepatitis G, and is probably spread by blood and sexual contact. However, there is doubt about whether it causes hepatitis, or is just associated with hepatitis, as it does not appear to replicate primarily in the liver.
Diagnosis:
These viral hepatitis conditions can be diagnosed and followed through the use of readily available blood tests.
Treatment:
Hepatitis E is a viral disease, and because of this, antibiotics are of no value in the treatment of the infection.
Hepatitis F is one of those diseases presently known to have no treatment.
There is no known treatment for any type of acute hepatitis. This goes for Hepatitis G.
Symptoms and Signs:
Clinically, the course of acute hepatitis varies greatly from mild symptoms requiring no treatment to fulminant hepatic failure needing liver transplantation.
Initial features are of nonspecific flu-like symptoms, commonly seen in almost all acute viral infections and may include malaise, muscle and joint aches, fever, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, and headache. More specific symptoms, which can be found in acute hepatitis from any cause, are: profound loss of appetite, aversion to smoking among smokers, dark urine, yellowing of the eyes and skin (i.e., jaundice) and abdominal discomfort.
Causes:
Hepatitis E is a viral hepatitis (liver inflammation) that results from an infection of a virus called hepatitis E virus (HEV).
Hepatitis F virus is a hypothetical virus that is associated with hepatitis.
Hepatitis G is caused by the Hepatitis G Virus (HGV). This also known as the GB virus-C (GBV-C)
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