title: [Therapy of chronic hepatitis].
abstract: Treatment with glucocorticosteroids alone or in combination with azathioprine can be considered the most successful therapy in "chronic active hepatitis" of the "autoimmune" type. Immunosuppressive treatment of HBs+ chronic active hepatitis remains controversial and should be confined exclusively to severe cases. Caution is even more indicated in chronic active hepatitis of the non-A-non-B type. Antiviral therapy in chronic active hepatitis is still controverted. Relatively little experience has been gained of the enormously expensive interferon treatment.
mesh_terms: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001379:Azathioprine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007372:Interferons / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D007372:Interferons; D001379:Azathioprine
vernacular_title: Therapie der chronischen Hepatitis.