11.   Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times.

12.   We feel that the occurence of acute hepatitis with the intravenous preparation does not necessarily preclude the subsequent use of the oral preparation in these patients.

13.   The cause was acute viral hepatitis, the British newspaper The Independent reported.

14.   Researchers studied patients with acute hepatitis.

15.   There are no specific treatments for acute benign viral hepatitis.

16.   Algerian writer Rachid Minouni, who went into exile after Islamic death threats to his daughter, died of acute hepatitis in hospital here Sunday.