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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]
Overview
Attending to the impact of hepatitis E worldwide, further studies are required to diagnose and treat severe cases of the disease. Serological assays to identify past and current infections should be developed, in order to help in the diagnosis of hepatitis E, in high-risk patients.
Future or Investigational Therapies
Patients with elevated liver transaminases, particularly immunocompromised and end-stage liver disease patients should be tested for the presence of HEV RNA. Infected pregnant women also have an increased risk of complications, and should be tested and treated as well.[1][2]
Further studies are required to answer questions such as:[1][2]
- What are the areas of hyperendemnicity?
- Which serotypes prevail in different areas?
- What is the real percentage of asymptomatic infection?
- Other potential routes of infection?
- What is the real risk of transmission of HEV through blood transfusions?
- What genotypes can cause chronic infection?
- Mechanism of interaction between T-cells and HEV?
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kamar N, Bendall R, Legrand-Abravanel F, Xia NS, Ijaz S, Izopet J; et al. (2012). "Hepatitis E." Lancet. 379 (9835): 2477–88. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61849-7. PMID 22549046.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wedemeyer H, Pischke S, Manns MP (2012). "Pathogenesis and treatment of hepatitis e virus infection". Gastroenterology. 142 (6): 1388–1397.e1. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2012.02.014. PMID 22537448.