[Does alcoholic chronic hepatitis exist?].
Alcoholic chronic hepatitis (ACH) can be considered as an independent nosological entity. This conclusion can be made basing on the literature devoted to the mechanisms of ethanol effects on the liver and clinicomorphological features of hepatic ethanol damage. ACH should be included into the new 1994 International classification of chronic hepatitis. Special attention is paid to a higher incidence of combined liver damage induced by alcohol and hepatotropic viruses, especially by hepatitis C virus. Combined virus-alcoholic liver damage will become, in the author's opinion, one of the most important hepatology problems in the coming millenium.
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I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy.
D000431:Ethanol / Q000009:adverse effects; D006519:Hepatitis, Alcoholic / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D006521:Hepatitis, Chronic / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology
D000431:Ethanol