Oliveira, Ana and Valadares, Diana and Nery, Felipe (2021) Pleural Effusion Related to Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation: A Rare Association. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8 (2). pp. 1-5. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Despite worldwide vaccination campaigns, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health problem. The natural history ranges from asymptomatic infection to severe liver injury or failure, chronic complications or reactivation episodes. The effects of HBV on the organism are immunomediated, possibly triggering extrahepatic manifestations. Since 1971, only a few cases of pleural effusion related to HBV infection have been described. We report HBV-associated pleural effusion occurring during a viral reactivation episode. Antiviral treatment directed towards pleural effusion related to HBV infection should be dictated by underlying liver disease severity and not pleural effusion severity
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hepatitis B virus, viral reactivation, extrahepatic manifestations, pleural effusion |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2021 15:23 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2021 15:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21182 |
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