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Unusual cardiac features in cholestatic hepatitis A in an adolescent: improvement with corticosteroid treatment.

Atabek ME, Pirgon O

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. meatabek@hotmail.com

Hepatitis A is one of the most frequent infectious liver diseases affecting children worldwide. Extra-hepatic manifestations of acute hepatitis A virus are rare in pediatric age group. We report a case of a 16-year-old, otherwise healthy adolescent who had viral hepatitis A with cardiac manifestations. The patient is the first pediatric case of hepatitis A with a combination of hypotension, persistent bradycardia and progressive cholestasis.

Published 15 January 2007 in J Infect, 54(2): e91-3.
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