Prato, April 21, 2022 – A 4-year-old boy from Prato has been transferred from the Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence to the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, due to a liver painwhich does not correspond to any known hepatitis strain (types A, B, C, D, E).
It would be a Suspected acute pediatric hepatitis, the mysterious pathology increasingly detected in children since the beginning of the year. In particular, the warning of the increase in cases of Not A-Non E hepatitis began in the UK in early April: there are now 108 cases and more have been recorded in other European countries and also in the United States.
The child remained with Meyer in intensive care until this morning and was then transferred by ambulance to the Bambino Gesù hospital, where he could undergo an inpatient examination liver transplant. Four cases have currently been reported in Italy.
In the meantime, a comprehensive investigation has just started in all the Italian pediatric hepatological centers to assess the possible increase in cases of acute hepatitis with unknown causes and, consequently, to verify that our country is interested in the phenomenon that involves different countries in Great Britain , where there have been 108 cases of mysterious hepatitis in children under the age of 10 since January. The Italian Society of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Pediatric Nutrition (Sigenp) launched the survey.