Table 2: Clinical situations should be suspected hepatitis E (request IgG anti-HEV, IgM anti-HEV and /or HEV RNA).
Acute hepatitis with negative markers for hepatitis A, B and C
Acute hepatitis with any risk factors (travel to endemic areas, contact with animals, “unusual” food consumption...) independently of other markers of viral hepatitis
Liver failure or decomposition in chronic liver disease
Drug-induced hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis
Chronic liver disease of unknown etiology in immune compromised patients