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Infectious mononucleosis hepatitis: report of two patients
A Ghosh1, U C Ghoshal, R Kochhar
1Department of Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Calcutta.
Abstract:
Icteric hepatitis and fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) are rare in infectious mononucleosis (IM). We report two patients with icteric IM hepatitis; one died after developing FHF, the other recovered uneventfully. Epstein-Barr virus infection causing hepatitis and FHF should be suspected when tests for other hepatotrophic viral infections are negative.