Mean age was older, prothrombin time activity was higher, AIH scores before treatment were lower in histologically acute hepatitis than histologically chronic hepatitis significantly.
Nine patients with the severe form of hepatitis E included two patients with fulminant hepatitis E and seven patients who were diagnosed with severe acute hepatitis in which hepatic encephalopathy did not appear during the course of the illness despite low plasma prothrombin activity (<or=40%) and/or increased total bilirubin level (>or=20 mg/dl).
Nineteen patients with acute HBV infection, 10 classified with severe acute hepatitis (SH) (prothrombin time; PT <40%) and 9 with typical acute hepatitis (AH) (PT >40%), and their infectious sources (all were sexual partners) were studied.