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hepatitis
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Cutting for Stone
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- Little Abhi Ghoshe was a month old when his father died of hepatitis.†
Part 2 *hepatitis = disease that causes inflammation of the liver
- He has a fulminant hepatitis.†
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- Viral hepatitis.†
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- Hepatitis B. Stone let down the bed rail and the two of them stood over me.†
Part 4hepatitis B = a potentially long-term liver infection spread through contact with infected blood or body fluids
- Hepatitis B swims around here.†
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- But acute fulminant hepatitis B?†
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- I said, 'Professor, this is a not a case of hepatitis, but a case of my own brother.'†
Part 4hepatitis = disease that causes inflammation of the liver
- He is in agreement that the alcohol and the isoniazid might be contributory, but there is no doubt that what we are dealing with here first and foremost is hepatitis B. What is the prognosis?†
Part 4hepatitis B = a potentially long-term liver infection spread through contact with infected blood or body fluids
- It's hepatitis.†
Part 4hepatitis = disease that causes inflammation of the liver
- I understand hepatitis.†
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- In this wealthy place, this rich hospital"—she swept her hands at all the machinery—"surely here in America you can do more for hepatitis than to wring your hands and say it is very grave."†
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- How did Marion get hepatitis B?†
Part 4hepatitis B = a potentially long-term liver infection spread through contact with infected blood or body fluids
- But Appleby had his hands on the prison health records and they showed what we had not known before: Genet was also a silent carrier of hepatitis B. She contracted it (or so the prison doctor postulated) from an improperly sterilized needle or a transfusion or a tattoo when she was in the field in Eritrea; she could also have acquired it sexually.†
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- The incubation period of hepatitis B fit Shiva's hypothesis: it was six weeks from her visit to my falling ill.†
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- First of all, transplants are notoriously unsuccessful when the liver is being destroyed by fulminant hepatitis B. Even if we found a cadaver liver of the right blood group and size and we did the transplant successfully, we would have to use massive doses of steroids and other drugs that suppress the immune system to prevent rejection of the new liver.†
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- That would give the hepatitis B virus a field day and the new liver would be destroyed and we would be back to exactly where we are now.†
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- In anyone else with acute hepatitis B, a liver transplant would simply feed the virus.†
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- As you can see, I am not a carrier of hepatitis B or anything like that.†
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- The shots of hepatitis B immunoglobulin helped.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(hepatitis) inflammation of the liver that can make it hard for the body to process wastes and other chemicalsThere are several types of hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis A, B, and C. Type A spreads mainly through contaminated food or water. Types B & C spread through contact with infected blood or body fluids. Some infections go away, but others can become long-term and damage the liver.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)