viral hepatitis
Contagious liver inflammation
Viral hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by one of several viruses, most commonly hepatitis A, B, or C.
These viruses differ in how they spread—A typically through contaminated food or water, B and C through blood or bodily fluids—and in their severity, with some causing acute illness and others leading to chronic infection, cirrhosis, or liver cancer.
She was vaccinated against viral hepatitis before traveling abroad.
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
- liver damageHarm to detoxifying organ
- yellowHue between green and orange
- yellow eyesAmber-colored vision organs
cirrhosis · needle · safe injection · blood transfusion · fever · bilirubin · fatigue · nausea · HCV · serology · ascites · contaminated · blood · scarring · liver function test · transmission · acute · infection
- liverliver, bile, cirrhosis, hepatocyte, jaundice
- Liver Diseasescirrhosis, fatty liver, liver failure, liver cancer, liver cirrhosis
- Chronic InfectionsHIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, TB, herpes
- liver diseasecirrhosis, fatty liver, liver failure, liver damage, liver cancer
- Hepatitishep A, HCV, HDV, interferon, genotyping
- Immune WeaknessHIV, AIDS, chemotherapy, immunosuppressants, leukemia