• Arch Iran Med · Jan 2021

    Hepatitis E Virus Seroprevalence Among Liver Transplant Recipients with Persistent Elevation of Liver Enzymes: A Single Center Report.

    • Maryam Chorami, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Fardad Ejtehadi, Seyed Ali Malek-Hosseini, and Maryam Moini.
    • Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
    • Arch Iran Med. 2021 Jan 1; 24 (1): 22-26.

    BackgroundChronic hepatitis E infection has been reported in solid organ transplant recipients following acute hepatitis due to the compromised immune status. Almost all reports are from areas where hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotypes 3 and 4 are the dominant genotypes. This study was conducted to investigate the role of hepatitis E infection as an etiology for liver enzymes elevation in liver transplant recipients from the largest liver transplant program in Iran.MethodsIn a prospective study from June to December 2015, in a single liver transplantation center in Iran, all adult liver recipients who were investigated for the etiology of persistent elevation of liver enzymes were tested for HEV serology status.ResultsOf 122 patients included in the study, 19 (15.6%) were positive for HEV serology. Seropositive patients were significantly older than seronegative ones (mean age 43.79 vs. 31.58, P < 0.001); however, they were not different in other characteristics including sex distribution and mean of liver enzymes in each occasion. Liver biopsies were done in 16 HEV seropositive patients and none of the biopsies showed evidence for acute or chronic viral hepatitis.ConclusionIn this study, with 15.6% rate of HEV seropositivity in liver recipients with persistent elevation of liver enzymes, we were not able to confirm any clinical evidence for active acute or chronic hepatitis E infection. This could theoretically be attributed to the fact that the dominant prevalent HEV genotype in our endemic area is not associated with a chronic form of infection.© 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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