Aetiology
The most common causes of hepatic jaundice are:
- viral hepatitis
- alcoholic hepatitis
- cirrhosis
- primary biliary cirrhosis
- hepatic metastases
Less common causes include:
- drug-induced
- leptospirosis
- liver abscess
Rare causes include:
- benign intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
- cardiac failure
- following cardiac surgery
- Wilson's disease
- Hodgkin's disease
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome
- Rotor's syndrome
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