Adrian Marinescu talks again about one of the diseases that generated a great deal of concern throughout the world this spring, and which is still being investigated, because it remains with many question marks, hepatitis of unknown cause still being the focus of the WHO.
Adrian Marinescu talks below about the fact that there is no connection between hepatitis of unknown cause and the Coronavirus, but also that the liver of affected people can regenerate to a certain extent, everything depending on the level of damage that exists for the liver due to this condition.
"Certainly it is not relevant, consider that approximately between 70% - 80% of the world's population was infected during the pandemic. As there were symptomatic or asymptomatic, severe or critical forms, they passed, and in their case I expect to have antibodies. The link that tells me that people who had this liver disease also had antibodies for the Coronavirus means nothing.
It was just a status for a person who was either vaccinated or went through the disease, so it is obvious that there is no connection between the two. It is not very clear why it happens to a greater extent in children instead of adults, and here it is to be discussed if we do not have a certain pattern, because liver damage also occurs in adults.
It followed the pattern in which we were talking about a child, generally up to 10 years old, who had severe liver damage based on various causes. We saw Wilson's disease which was unrelated, so we don't have to put any equal sign at all, because it's an adenovirus that's a common denominator for a lot of those liver diseases.
The liver regenerates to a certain extent. If you have a hepatitis B or C virus, you need to solve the viral multiplication, because to really talk about regeneration, it regenerates to a certain extent. There is reversibility in cases of hepatitis of unknown cause, but due to the cause.
There are patients who cannot resolve without a liver transplant. It was Wilson's disease, which had no connection, it being a genetic disease, so it depends on the case. When we have a genetic disease that cannot be corrected by traditional means, unfortunately it is an indication for a liver transplant."
