Chronic hepatitis

Description:

The diffusion polyetiological inflammatory process in a liver caused by defeat of cells of a liver which did not come to the end for 6 months or did not evolve in cirrhosis. The term of 6 months is determined for cases, when there is no the acute beginning of a disease or the disease develops imperceptibly.

Symptoms of Chronic hepatitis:

Patients complain of pains in a liver of stupid character, is more often constants, a loss of appetite, an eructation, nausea, bad portability of the fat and fried food, a meteorism, an unstable chair. Quite often the general weakness, decrease in working capacity, pathological vasomotor reactions take place. At one third of patients at survey unsharply expressed jaundice comes to light. At survey "hepatic vascular asterisks", "hepatic" palms are sometimes noted. Moderate increase in a liver is the most constant symptom of chronic hepatitis. Usually right and left share is increased. The liver edge is acute, plotnovaty, more or less painful. At the long course of a disease sometimes at a palpation it is possible to note roughness of the speaker from under the costal region of the site of a surface of a liver. Increase in a liver at chronic hepatitis in many cases, unlike cirrhosis, is not followed by simultaneous significant increase in a spleen.

Reasons of Chronic hepatitis:

Etiologically allocate sluduyushchy types of chronic hepatitises:
    * autoimmune hepatitis;
    * cholestatic hepatitis;
    * a chronic viral hepatitis In;
    * a chronic viral hepatitis With;
    * chronic viral hepatitis of D;
    * medicinal hepatitis;
    * chronic hepatitis of not clear etiology.

Treatment of Chronic hepatitis:

Modern treatment of chronic hepatitises  is based on the following main directions: etiological (elimination or suppression of a cause of illness); impact on mechanisms which cause progressing of pathological process; corrections of the disturbances connected with change of function of a liver; reduction of expressiveness of painful symptoms and therapy (prevention) of complications.