[The unique course of a chronic generalized infection with the hepatitis B virus (a clinico-morphological...

In a young male chronic generalized HBV infection (acute viral hepatitis in childhood, HBsAg, HBeAb, HBcAb in the blood serum) ran with a long-term fever and involvement of many organs and systems (the liver, lungs, CNS) complicating the diagnosis. The patient died in the presence of CNS affection and hepatorenal insufficiency. At biopsy and autopsy it was established that the patient had active hepatic cirrhosis, fibrosing alveolitis, pulmonary vasculitides, chronic pneumonia, cerebral vasculitis, myocarditis and postmyocarditis cardiosclerosis, necrotizing myositis, Sjogren's syndrome, mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis.