Hepatic icterus

• Yellow fever

• Viral hepatitis A, B, C, D, E

• Medicinal and alcoholic hepatitis

• Leptospirosis

• East African trypanosomiasis

• Recurrent fever (borreliosis)

• Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) is a rare cause of jaundice

• Typhoid fever can in rare cases cause jaundice

• Liver decompensation due to acute liver failure after consumption of toxic mushrooms, such as Gyromitra sp., Amanita phalloides

• Budd-Chiari syndrome (occlusion of vena hepatica)

• Veno-occlusive disease resulting from ingestion of vegetable pyrrolizidine alkaloids (Heliotropium, Crotalaria, Senecio sp). See also Jamaican bush tea.

• Cosmopolitan diseases, e.g. auto-immune hepatitis, biliary cirrhosis

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