Etiology, pathogenesis and sequelae of chronic hepatitis.
Chronic hepatitis is the commonest clinical picture with liver involvement and regarded as the link between acute liver injury due to viruses or toxic noxae, and irreversible, complete hepatic cirrhosis. For reasons associated with diagnosis, prognosis and therapy it is essential that a distinction should be made based on the etiology and stage of the disease but assessment is only partly possible by clinical or biochemical procedures. This paper states etiology, pathogenesis and sequelae of chronic hepatitis on the basis of our cases.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006519:Hepatitis, Alcoholic / Q000473:pathology; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis