title: [A retrospective analysis of therapeutic outcome of various types of severe virus hepatitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore combined therapeutic schemes for severe virus hepatitis and to raise survival rate.
  
  
  METHODS
  The therapeutic outcomes of different schemes were analyzed in 1020 cases of severe viral hepatitis treated in our hospital in recent twenty years. The treatments were classified as basic and combination of Chinese traditional and Western medicine therapies in which embryonic liver cell suspend liquid or hepatic growth factor, or/and artificial liver as blood cleaner were also used for the latter.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The survival rate was 30.28% (33/109) treated by basic procedures and 60.15% (548/911) by combined procedures. There was obvious statistical difference in survival rate between the two groups (P<0.001). Among all the patients, 219 (21.47%) suffered from acute or sub-acute severe hepatitis, 801 (78.53%) chronic severe hepatitis; 446 started their treatment at the early stage of the disease and the survival rate was 77.13% (344/446); 404 at the mid stage and 170 at the late stage and the survival rates were 52.72% (213/404) and 14.12% (24/170), respectively. The survival rate for the patients treated at the early or the mid stage was much higher than that at the late stage (P<0.001), and had a positive correlation with the activity of prothrombin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The combined therapies used in present study are effective to raise the survival rate of the patients with severe virus hepatitis. Early treatment is extremely important for the patients' prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Liver Diseases Institute, 81st Hospital of PLA, Nanjing 210002, China.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sui
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate