Table 2. Extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis E.
Disease | Remarks | Literature |
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Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) | Three of 201 GBS patients (1.5%) were viremic for HEV | van den Berg 2014 (5) |
Neuralgic amyotrophy | Five of 47 patients (10.6%) were viremic for HEV | van Eijk 2014 (e10) |
Glomerulonephritis | An accumulation of glomerulonephritides was observed in a cohort of 51 transplant recipients (liver or kidney) | Kamar 2012 (e11) |
Meningitis, encephalitis, myopathy | Isolated cases | Kamar 2011 (e12) |
Erythema and arthralgia | Single case report | Al-Shukri 2013 (4) |
Cryoglobulinemia | Single case of cryoglobulinemic vasculitis in connection with chronic hepatitis E | Pischke 2014 (e4) |
HEV, hepatitis E virus