Homologous Serum Hepatitis in Youthful Heroin Users

Article1 July 1960HOMOLOGOUS SERUM HEPATITIS IN YOUTHFUL HEROIN USERSROBERT A. LEVINE, M.D., MARY ANN PAYNE, M.D.ROBERT A. LEVINE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, MARY ANN PAYNE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-1-164 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe high incidence of homologous serum hepatitis among youthful drug addicts has been reported by other investigators.1-7 Previous studies have been concerned with the epidemiology of serum jaundice and with the hospitalized patient in the acute stage of his illness. This report describes a study conducted over an 18-month period on an ambulatory group of 21 native-born white narcotic users in New York City, 16 to 23 years of age, exposed to a common source of needles. 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Y.*Received for publication December 14, 1959.From the Department of Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Robert A. Levine, M.D., Department of Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 525 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York 21, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHepatitis C virus: Historical perspective and current conceptCellular and matrix changes in drug abuser liver sinusoids: A semiquantitative and morphometric ultrastructural studyVascular hepatotoxicity related to heroin addictionHepadnaviridae: Hepatitis B Virus and the Delta VirusMorphine and methadone impact on human phagocytic physiologyNon-A, non-B hepatitis. I. Recognition, epidemiology, and clinical featuresNon-A, non-B hepatitis. 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KAISER, M.D. 1 July 1960Volume 53, Issue 1Page: 164-178KeywordsAddictsAminotransferasesEpidemiologyHepatitisHepatitis EHeroinResearch laboratories ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1960 PDF downloadLoading ...