title: [The significance of current hepatitis virology for geriatrics].
abstract: In geriatric medicine, hepatitis A is of minor interest only because protecting antibodies have been demonstrated in 92% of the elderly. Hepatitis B (which, prior to recognition of major routes of transmission, was predominantly transmitted percutaneously) has gained importance only by its chronic residuals in aged patients; acute infection in the elderly is rare. The recently detectable posttransfusional hepatitis C is the most important type of viral hepatitis in the elderly. In our region, hepatitis D is rare and hepatitis E has not yet been observed.
authors.affiliation: II. Medizinische Klinik (Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Endokrinologie), DRK-Krankenanstalten Wesermünde, Krankenhaus Am Bürgerpark, Bremerhaven.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mörl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D006518:Hepatitis Viruses / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies
vernacular_title: Zur Bedeutung der aktuellen Hepatitis-Virologie für die Geriatrie.