| Question 1: Viral hepatitis: Hepatitis A through E (more than 95% of viral cause), Herpes simplex, ________, Epstein-Barr, yellow fever virus, adenoviruses. | |||
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| Question 2: This may become life-threatening and occasionally requires a ________. | |||
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| Question 3: The diagnosis depends on medical history, physical exam, blood tests, radiological imaging and sometimes a ________. | |||
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| Question 4: ________ and primary sclerosing cholangitis occasionally mimic chronic hepatitis[3] | |||
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| Question 5: Rarely, ischemic hepatitis can be caused by local problems with the blood vessels that supply oxygen to the liver (such as thrombosis, or clotting of the hepatic artery which partially supplies ________ to liver cells). | |||
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| Question 6: The severity of liver damage may be limited by prompt administration of ________. | |||
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| Question 7: ________, mostly in alcoholic beverages, is a significant cause of hepatitis. | |||
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| Question 8: ________ hepatitis can be untreatable since the long half life of the drug (up to 60 days) means that there is no effective way to stop exposure to the drug. | |||
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| Question 9: ________: Amanita toxin in mushrooms, carbon tetrachloride, asafetida | |||
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| Question 10: Blood testing of a person with ischemic hepatitis will show very high levels of transaminase ________ (AST and ALT), which may exceed 1000 U/L. | |||
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