INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS; A GENERALIZED DISEASE. A STUDY OF RENAL, GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES.

摘要: Abstract A clinical study of endemic infectious hepatitis contracted by twenty-five U. S. soldiers stationed in Korea is reported. history intimate exposure to the Korean population or ingestion unauthorized food and water was elicited from each patient. Although twenty-three patients illness brief, relapse documented laboratory studies seven subjects confirmed liver biopsy three. Mild anemia developed nineteen associated with reticulocytosis during third week illness. mild hemolytic state demonstrated convalescence. An inflammatory lesion observed specimens gastric small intestinal mucosa. The serial changes produced jejunal duodenal mucosa course are described. In renal a noninflammatory which involved glomeruli tubules showed interstitial edema.