[Is chronic persistent hepatitis decidedly benign?].
Issuing from an analysis of the subjective and objective findings as well as of social data of 77 patients with histologically ascertained chronic persisting hepatitis after virus hepatitis non-A/non-B the problem is pursued whether or not - as in literature is nearly homogeneously assumed - the chronic persisting hepatitis is a decidedly benign disease. Apart from the difficulties in the clear histological classification mentioned by other authors it seemed to be profitable to demonstrate in detail the impairments by persisting symptoms which are to be established in the 5th year of the disease (75% of the patients), by acute attacks (ALAT max. 6.9 mymol/1 . s) with corresponding disabilities (40% of the patients) and the effects on social and professional life. The chronic persisting hepatitis is a very heterogeneous group, which must be considered more differentiated concerning the value of the disease and the prognosis. In this case the etiology must apparently more be taken into consideration, for the findings demonstrated in the 5th year of the disease of the chronic persisting hepatitis (non-A/non-B) show only partly (quoad vitam) a benign prognosis.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006521:Hepatitis, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D011379:Prognosis
Ist die chronisch-persistierende Hepatitis ausgesprochen gutartig?