| brief report: acute viral hepatitis and poor maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant sudanese women. | sixteen pregnant women presented at the three main hospitals in khartoum province, sudan during the period of march-september 2007 with features of acute viral hepatitis. their mean (sd) gestational age was 28.0(6.7) weeks. the etiology of acute viral hepatitis was hepatitis b virus in five women (31.3%), hepatitis c virus in one woman (6.3%), hepatitis e virus in eight women (50%), and hepatitis non-a-to-e virus in two women (12.5%). there were four (25%) maternal deaths and three (18.7%) intra ... | 2008 | 18712815 |