title: [Therapy and prognosis of chronic hepatitis].
abstract: The classification of chronic hepatitis in a chronic persistent and a chronic aggressive form, the latter with mild or strongly inflammatory activity, has proven valid and had been widely accepted. The long-term therapy of the chronic persistent form (to be confirmed histologically several times) consists merely in a basis-therapy (diet, abstinency from alcohol, physical rest, vitamins). With same caution chronic aggressive hepatitis with little activity is being treated. Rival therapeutic measures for forms with a strongly inflammatory activity are only corticosteroids alone or in combination with azathioprine as well as D-penicillamine in small quantities.
mesh_terms: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000328:Adult; D001379:Azathioprine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000209:etiology; D010396:Penicillamine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D010396:Penicillamine; D001379:Azathioprine
vernacular_title: Zur Therapie und Prognose der chronischen Hepatitis