hepatitis
肝炎,炎症,炎症性肝炎,炎症肝炎
Definitions
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Pathology.
- : inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
Examples
The vaccine against the hepatitis B virus, for example, works this way.
Sinovac founder Yin Weidong, a doctor, started his career in the 1980s in China’s northern city of Tangshan, where he investigated hepatitis outbreaks as part of a municipal public health agency.
One common immunization that already uses this technique is the hepatitis B vaccine.
This is consistent with several other vaccines, including hepatitis B, measles, mumps and rubella.
As many as half of patients failed to get their second dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, for example.
He contracted Hepatitis C from drug use, which was a contributory factor in his death.
Hepatitis B plays by the same rules, though the rates of transmission are about 10 times more frequent.
Over time, he can transmit a bloodborne disease such as hepatitis C to the patients he is “sharing” narcotics with.
If left untreated, hepatitis C causes liver damage over the course of decades.
If treated early enough, 50 to 80 percent of people who contract Hepatitis C are cured.
It differs however essentially from that attending hepatitis, from its not being accompanied with fever.
Suppose a man to be attacked with hepatitis, (inflammation of the liver:) he has a pain in the right shoulder.
But when the hepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.
A very grave case of hepatitis endangered his life seriously.
Obscure lameness in front, of the right leg mostly, may be a symptom of hepatitis.