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1Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei.
Abstract:
A 28-yr-old man had pleural effusions coinciding with two separate episodes of acute exacerbation of chronic type B hepatitis. In both episodes, the pleural effusion was exudative with lymphocyte predominance, and there was no ascites. Hypocomplementemia was evident in the second episode when the complement level was determined, but immune complexes were not detected in the serum. The hepatitis itself was thought to be directly responsible for the pleural effusions because of meticulous exclusion of other causes and the fact that, without specific treatment, the effusions resolved completely as the hepatitis subsided.
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