noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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active
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Histological examination before treatment showed that all the patients had chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis.
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Long-term consequences include chronic active hepatitis , cirrhosis and liver cancer.
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Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis .
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One patient with chronic active hepatitis was also found to have the type 1 pattern of staining.
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Membranous expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 correlated significantly with active hepatitis B virus replication.
acute
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Three cases of severe acute hepatitis have been reported in association with piroxicam.
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Only about 30/-40% of patients with hepatitis B develop clinically apparent acute hepatitis.
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Although changes in liver function tests are very rare, three cases of severe acute hepatitis secondary to piroxicam have been reported.
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Over half the patients who acquire acute hepatitis C virus infection develop chronic hepatitis.
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The reported incidence of acute hepatitis B virus in the general population increased by 37 percent from 1979 to 1989.
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One had severe acute alcoholic hepatitis and had continued to drink despite medical advice to the contrary.
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Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times.
chronic
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All 44 patients with chronic type B hepatitis had pre-S1 and pre-S2 display in the liver.
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It has been repeatedly reported that smooth muscle antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis are directed to cell actin.
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Both reactivities are in fact uncommon in autoimmune chronic hepatitis .
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We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
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Patients with chronic persistent hepatitis may, however, survive for years without histological progression.
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These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
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Histological examination before treatment showed that all the patients had chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis.
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Long-term consequences include chronic active hepatitis , cirrhosis and liver cancer.
viral
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We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
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Human bathers, too, risk viral hepatitis , skin reactions and oral thrush.
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These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
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Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period.
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Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis .
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The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.
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These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis, viral hepatitis , streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
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c
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Currently, the group has begun research into new therapeutic approaches for hepatitis C , lymphoma and leukemia.
delta
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Concurrently hepatitis delta virus superinfection did not appear to modulate the synthesis and expression of pre-S peptides in the liver.
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infect
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Most HIV-positive intravenous drug users are also infected by hepatitis C virus.
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Semen infected with hepatitis or syphilis can be donated, but only if a woman agrees to accept it.
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Approximately one out of ten persons infected with hepatitis B becomes a chronic carrier, able to infect others for decades.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to various surveys, they showed a rate of infectious hepatitis eight to twenty-five times higher than heterosexual males.
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Although most chronically infected patients appear to have clinically apparent hepatitis , a subclinical chronic carrier state also exists.
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Nineteen eighty-two was the year Jasper had hepatitis .
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Prior to the hepatitis B outbreak, most public health officials had ignored the danger signs in gay male epidemiology.
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Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period.
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The hepatitis B antigen is found in blood, saliva, urine, semen, vaginal secretions and possibly other body fluids.
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There is no specific treatment for this disease and complete recovery from any form of hepatitis may take four months or longer.
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This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection.