John Israel¹,Rakesh Kumar Ambati², Ch. Aruna³

¹Professor and Head,²Assistant Professor,³Postgraduate student,Department of General Medicine, Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences,Karimnagar,Telangana,India.

Address for correspondence: Dr.Rakesh Kumar Ambati,Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences,Karimnagar,Telangana,India.

Email: rakeshkumarambati@gmail.com

Objective: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes large-scale epidemics of acute viral hepatitis, particularly in developing countries. In men and non-pregnant women, the disease is usually self-limited and has a case-fatality rate of less than <0.1%. However, in pregnant women, particularly from certain geographical areas in India, HEV infection is more severe, often leading to fulminant hepatic failure and death in a significant proportion of patients.Here we report a case of 25-year-old primi who presented with Fulminant hepatic failure due to Hepatitis E during the third trimester of her pregnancy.

Keywords :Hepatitis E virus,Hepeviridae,pregnancy,Fulminant hepatitis,Hepatic encephalopathy.