Hepatitis B Revealed by Acute Obstetric Renal Failure in Bamako: A Case Report

Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. The infection can be acute (severe and short-term) or chronic (long-term). Hepatitis B is a common infection, affecting more than 350 million people worldwide. Approximately 8% of the French population has been in contact with HBV, and 0.7% are HBsAg carriers. It can also cause chronic infections and carry a significant risk of death from cirrhosis or liver cancer. Acute hepatitis B can lead to a risk of early spontaneous abortion and be the cause of the increased rate of early pregnancy termination. It is estimated that in France, approximately 6,000 children are born each year to mothers who are HBsAg carriers. Chronic hepatitis B has little impact on pregnancy. Since acute hepatitis B is responsible for abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, these abortions can also lead to acute renal failure. We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with hepatitis B, which was revealed by obstetric acute renal failure. The objective of this study was to provide a clinical observation of a rare case of viral hepatitis B discovered during acute renal failure caused by an abortion during a first-trimester pregnancy.