Tag: Hepatitis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
DEFINITION:
Fatigue is an unpleasant subjective sensation, when physical activity and / or mental achieve or continue (asthenia or fatigue) requires effort. This is a...
Chance discovery of hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is a relatively common disease.
An estimated 3% of the world population has a chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and...
Chance discovery of hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a major public health problems worldwide.
Approximately 2 billion people (one third of the world population) serological markers indicating the existence of...
Hepatomegaly
Liver enlargement is a relatively common situation in outpatient pathology.
ANATOMY:
The liver is located at the top and right of the digestive tube, supramesocolic floor....
Viral hepatitis
1- SOME DEFINITIONS:
* Hepatitis fulminant: is defined by a prothrombin time (PT) <50% with clinical signs of hepatic encephalopathy.
If the time between jaundice and...
Hypertransaminasemia
Transaminases are two in number:
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) which is located in the liver, myocardium and skeletal muscle;
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) that is ubiquitous...
Viruses in Anatomical Pathology
• Poliomyelitis: neurotropic.
Degenerative reversible first (disappearance of Nissl bodies) and final (ment-inflated or neuronal cell shrinkage).
• Papillomavirus (HPV): epidermotropic.
Induced epidermal hyper-plasia on the rete...
Genital Herpes
* Due to the herpes simplex virus type II in genital tropism. The in utero contamination risk is rare (when primary herpetic infection).
The consequences...
Viral hepatitis
- Several liver are grouped under the name of viral hepatitis: This is hepatitis A, B, C, Δ (delta) and E.
- The different hepatitis...
