Case Report
Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus with Fulminant Hepatitis
Table 1
Patient’s laboratory results.
| Lab values |
ASTa (10–30 U/L)d |
ALTb (7–35 U/L)d |
Alkaline
phosphatase (25–100 U/L)d | Total bilirubin (0.3–1.2 mg/dL)d |
Platelets (150–450 103/µL)d |
INRc (0.8–1.2)d | HSVe | PCRf | Maternal serum (copies/mL) | Before therapy | After therapy |
| Case 1 | 3685 | 4101 | 114 | 2.1 | 278 | 1.69 | 1.1 million | 100,000 | Case 2 | 2075 | 3886 | 203 | 11 | 140 | 3.6 | 500 million | 400,000 | Case 3 | 1902 | 731 | 127 | 2.0 | 90 | 3.2 | NP | NP |
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U/L: units per liter. aAspartate aminotransferase. bAlanine aminotransferase. cInternational normalized ratio. dNormal reference range. eHerpes simplex virus. fPolymerase chain reaction. NP: not performed.
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