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  • Title: Acute hepatitis E virus infection causing acute liver failure requiring living-donor liver transplantation in a non-pregnant immunocompetent woman.
    Author: Li IWS, Chok KSH.
    Journal: Transpl Infect Dis; 2017 Jun; 19(3):. PubMed ID: 28295889.
    Abstract:
    We report a rare case of acute liver failure from acute hepatitis E virus (HEV) in a non-pregnant woman without comorbidities who survived after liver transplantation. The source was likely consumption of partially cooked pig liver. HEV genotype 3 is the second most common genotype causing acute hepatitis E in developed countries. Fulminant hepatitis E rarely occurs without a risk factor, as in our patient. Vigilant monitoring for chronic hepatitis E in post-transplant immunocompromised patients is needed.
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