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More Unusual Child Hepatitis Cases In Malaysia Possible
By Alifah Zainuddin | 23 May 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 – The sharp rise in mysterious severe hepatitis among children in the United Kingdom and the United States suggests that more cases are possible in Malaysia that has confirmed one case so far.
Senior consultant paediatrician and researcher Dr Amar-Singh HSS told CodeBlue that while it is very difficult to speculate the potential spread of the serious liver disease, given its unclear cause, the significant increase in cases in the UK and the US that has reported more than 100 cases each does suggest that many “more cases are possible” in Malaysia...
...On May 6, the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported severe hepatitis in a boy aged four in Sabah who did not have any underlying disease except Covid-19 infection, with investigations ongoing to determine if this is a case of acute hepatitis of “unknown origin” reported internationally.
The four-year and 11-month-old Malaysian child with liver inflammation – who had symptoms of jaundice, fever, lack of appetite, nausea, and vomiting – sought treatment from a hospital in Sabah last March and successfully received a liver transplant on March 30 at a hospital in the Klang Valley after his condition deteriorated. He was discharged last April 21 in good health.
The liver transplant team at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), as well as Dr Alvin Khoh from Gleneagles Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, in a separate statement later attributed a potential link of the severe acute hepatitis in their patient to complications from Covid-19 infection...
More Unusual Child Hepatitis Cases In Malaysia Possible
By Alifah Zainuddin | 23 May 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 – The sharp rise in mysterious severe hepatitis among children in the United Kingdom and the United States suggests that more cases are possible in Malaysia that has confirmed one case so far.
Senior consultant paediatrician and researcher Dr Amar-Singh HSS told CodeBlue that while it is very difficult to speculate the potential spread of the serious liver disease, given its unclear cause, the significant increase in cases in the UK and the US that has reported more than 100 cases each does suggest that many “more cases are possible” in Malaysia...
...On May 6, the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported severe hepatitis in a boy aged four in Sabah who did not have any underlying disease except Covid-19 infection, with investigations ongoing to determine if this is a case of acute hepatitis of “unknown origin” reported internationally.
The four-year and 11-month-old Malaysian child with liver inflammation – who had symptoms of jaundice, fever, lack of appetite, nausea, and vomiting – sought treatment from a hospital in Sabah last March and successfully received a liver transplant on March 30 at a hospital in the Klang Valley after his condition deteriorated. He was discharged last April 21 in good health.
The liver transplant team at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), as well as Dr Alvin Khoh from Gleneagles Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, in a separate statement later attributed a potential link of the severe acute hepatitis in their patient to complications from Covid-19 infection...
