Structure of viral hepatitis in infants
Journal Title: Актуальна інфектологія - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Background. Many current studies are devoted to the study of hepatitis caused by viral infections, which are qualified as TORCH-infection. In infants TORCH-induced lesions prevail in the structure of viral hepatitis, the largest proportion is hepatitis of cytomegalovirus etiology. The purpose was to study the structure of viral hepatitis in infants. Materials and methods. The study included sixty-two children (mean age 1.8 ± 0.9 years) born in 2007–2016 treated in Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital. The comparison group consisted of 36 healthy children of the same age. The pathogens of viral hepatitis B, C, TORCH infections were verified by enzyme immunoassay and polymerase chain reaction. The results of the research were analyzed using computer package Statistica StatSoft Inc. and Excel XP for Windows for a personal computer. Results. The results of the analysis of the liver diseases structure in 62 young children, according to hospital statistics, determined that the overwhelming majority (38 children; 61.3 %) had viral hepatitis (VH), the other 24 (38.7 %) patients were divided by the etiological structure of liver damage as follows: 8 (12.9 %) patients had prolonged conjunctive jaundice, 7 (11.3 %) patients had congenital metabolic disorders, 9 (14.5 %) patients had congenital hepatobiliary abnomalities. 16.6 % of young children had hepatitis B and C viruses. In 5.8 % of cases VH was caused by viruses of the TORCH group of infections. Conclusions. In the structure of hepatobiliary diseases in infants, viral hepatitis (68.4 %) is on the first ranked place. Among the viral hepatitis in children in the first year of life, CMV-hepatitis (68.4 %) is most common, in children over 1 year old chronic hepatitis B and C. Severe obstetrical anamnesis, violations of pregnancy, placental infection are rather significant in the group of children with viral hepatitis. The main clinical signs of CMV-hepatitis are prolonged jaundice, cholestasis, early debut of the disease and increased level of transaminases, splenomegaly.
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T. V. Sorokman, P. M. Moldovan,, E. V. Makarova
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- DOI 10.22141/2312-413x.5.2.2017.105320
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