ACUTE ANICTERIC VIRUS HEPATITIS
- 7 June 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 149 (6) , 546-549
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1952.02930230020006
Abstract
Studies of acute virus hepatitis, including epidemics of the recent war, contain relatively scant reference to the less severe, coexisting form in which jaundice is lacking.1 Although it was realized many years ago that jaundice was not necessary for the diagnosis of hepatitis,2 early descriptions of epidemics of infectious hepatitis ("catarrhal jaundice") did not mention the anicteric form.3 Within recent years there has been increasing awareness of the existence of the anicteric variety4 and of its morbidity and occasional tendency to chronicity.5 Some writers6 describe fatalities with subacute necrosis of the liver, without jaundice, which they attribute to a preceding acute anicteric virus hepatitis; but this causal relationship has not been demonstrated beyond question. The few reports devoted to the subject of acute anicteric virus hepatitis have apparently not succeeded in achieving wide recognition of its clinical importance. This study, based on 30 sporadicKeywords
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