[Fungal infections in 2 cases of fulminant hepatitis].

Rev Med Chil

Centro de Gastrenterología, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Santiago.

Published: February 1990

Infectious complications are highly prevalent in patients with fulminating hepatitis. We report 2 female patients, aged 42 and 80 years old, with fulminating hepatitis caused by virus B and virus non-A non B, who died 20 and 25 days after initiation of the disease. Post mortem examinations showed severe C albicans infection of the gastrointestinal tract. A literature review is included.

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