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[Posttransfusion hepatitis. A prospective study]
C Villarreal-Urenda1, C Cano-Domínguez, V Zamalloa-Torres
1Centro Médico La Raza, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
Gaceta Medica De Mexico
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
This prospective study was carried out on thirty patients transfused with blood or blood products, by ten (33.3%) posttransfusion hepatitis was diagnosed; this is 15.75 cases per 1,000 U transfused. Four patients developed jaundice; six remained asymptomatic. In nine patients (90%) non-A, non-B hepatitis was diagnosed and one (10%) case was classified as hepatitis B. Two patients with non-A, non-B hepatitis developed chronic hepatitis, corroborated through percutaneous liver biopsy.