Acute pericarditis and renal failure complicating acute hepatitis A infection

• Published in: Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 82 - 84
• Main Authors: BEYAZIT, Yavuz, GUVEN, Gulay Sain, KEKILLI, Murat, KOKLU, Seyfettin, YOLCU, Omer Faruk, SHORBAGI, Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2006
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Acute Kidney Injury - blood; Acute Kidney Injury - etiology; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Blood Urea Nitrogen; Cardiology. Vascular system; Creatinine - blood; Disease Progression; Diseases of the pericardium; Echocardiography; Fatal Outcome; General aspects; Heart; Hepatitis A - complications; Hepatitis A - virology; Hepatitis A Antibodies - immunology; Hepatitis A Virus, Human - immunology; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Pericarditis - diagnostic imaging; Pericarditis - etiology; Kidney disease; Pericarditis; Urinary system disease; Acute; Cardiovascular disease; Hepatic disease; Infection; Medicine; Viral hepatitis A; Heart disease; Viral disease; Renal failure; Pericardial disease; Digestive diseases; Complication
• ISSN: 0038-4348; 1541-8243
• DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000197037.94756.be

Hepatitis A infection may result in acute hepatitis, and rarely, fulminant hepatitis may ensue. Extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis A are uncommon. The authors present the case of a 77-year-old male who had development of acute renal failure and pericarditis during the clinical course of acute hepatitis A infection. He died as a result of septic shock on the fifth day of hospitalization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of both these rare and serious complications appearing in the same patient.