All issues > Volume 27(2); 1984

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1984;27(2):164-169. Published online February 28, 1984.

A Case of Chronic Active Hepatitis with Vertical Transmission.

T H Son¹, T S Song¹, H J Park¹, M J Shin¹, J G Chi²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Seoul Red Cross Hospital
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Abstract

We experienced a case of Chronic Active Hepatitis with vertical transmission in a 4-year-3-month old boy. Diagnosis of CAH was confirmed by histologic features of liver biopsy. The mode of infection in this case was suspected as vertical transmission by clinical history. His mother had acute hepatitis B in the last trimester of the pregnancy of this boy and had been suffered from CAH, which was confirmed by liver biopsy, with persistent HBsAg positive antigenemia. We also made a brief review of CAH with vertical transmission in literatures.

Keywords :Chronic active hepatitis; antigenemia; vertical transmission