Markedly prolonged jaundice from simultaneous infection with hepatitis E virus and leptospira

Kurume Med J. 2003;50(3-4):155-9. doi: 10.2739/kurumemedj.50.155.

Abstract

We treated a patient simultaneously infected with hepatitis E virus and Leptospira interrogans, both acquired in China. Severe hyperbilirubinemia required nearly 200 days to resolve, transminase elevation showed a fluctuating course, and liver biopsy specimens showed fibrosis unusual for hepatitis E. Leptospirosis appeared to have altered the course of hepatitis E virus infection in this patient, even though infection with Leptospira was cleared with antibiotics by 50 days after the onset of the hepatitis symptoms.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Hepatitis E / complications*
  • Hepatitis E / pathology
  • Humans
  • Jaundice / etiology*
  • Leptospira interrogans*
  • Leptospirosis / complications*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged