Hepatitis E: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Hemochromatosis (iron storage disease) – genetic disease with autosomal recessive inheritance with increased deposition of iron as a result of increased iron concentration in the blood with tissue damage.
Wilson’s disease (copper storage disease) – autosomal recessive inherited disease in which copper metabolism in the liver is disturbed by one or more gene mutations.

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

Other subgroups of viral hepatitis such as hepatitis A, B, C, or D.
Bacterial infections with the following pathogens:
- Borrelia
- Brucella
- Chlamydia
- Gonococcus
- Leptospires
- Mycobaterium tuberculosis
- Rickettsiae (e.g., Coxiella burnetii)
- Salmonella
- Shigella
- Treponema pallidum (syphilis/lues)
Helminthoses with the following worm species:
- Ascaris (roundworms)
- Bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
- Liver fluke
- Trichinae
Protozoal disease with the following protozoa:
- Amoebae
- Leishmania (leishmaniasis)
- Plasmodia (malaria)
- Toxoplasmosis
Viral infections with the following pathogens:
- Adenoviruses
- Coxsackie viruses
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) – both acute HEV infection and chronic HEV infection (CMV reactivation).
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – both acute HEV infection and chronic HEV- infection (EBV- reactivation).
- Yellow fever virus
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV)
- Influenza virus
- Mumps virus
- Rubella virus
- Varicella zoster virus (VZV)

Liver, gallbladder and bile ducts – Pancreas (pancreas) (K70-K77; K80-K87).

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) – acute or chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease of the liver.
Hepatitis (liver inflammation), unspecified (hepatitis A to D).

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

Medication

Environmental pollution – intoxications (poisonings).

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