Acute hepatitis, affected a 3-year-old boy: "Serious but stable conditions"
The pathology of unknown and very aggressive origin is taking hold in half of Europe
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A case of suspected pediatric acute hepatitis occurred in the past few hours in Prato.
We are talking about a pathology of unknown and very aggressive origin: it affects children under 10 and several cases have occurred in Europe.
The patient, explains the ASL Toscana Centro, is three years old: he was taken to hospital on Thursday afternoon and is now hospitalized at the Bambino Gesù in Rome, where he was transferred.
His condition is very serious but stable and the possibility of having a liver transplant operation as initially feared has been excluded at the moment. The analyzes carried out so far, we learn from the hospital, have excluded the known origins of the disease. The first virological tests for adenovirus were also negative.
At the moment in Italy there are 7 reports of suspected hepatitis, and an investigation is underway in the various ASLs.
The alarm started from Great Britain and then spread to half of Europe. The exact cause and origin remain unknown at the moment: the tests carried out have ruled out that it is viral hepatitis of types A, B, C, D and E.
Every year, health sources explain, there are cases of hepatitis whose origin is not known but it is the frequency of these reports that triggered the alert.
(Unioneonline / L)
