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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alter, Miriam J
• Margolis, Harold S
• Krawczynski, Krzysztof
• Judson, Franklyn N
• Mares, Allene
• Alexander, W.James
• Hu, Pin Ya
• Miller, Joan K
• Gerber, Michael A
• Sampliner, Richard E
• Meeks, Emory L
• Beach, Michael J

Titel

The Natural History of Community-Acquired Hepatitis C in the United States

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1992-12, Vol.327 (27), p.1899-1905

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ONE of the most important features of non-A, non-B hepatitis is the frequency with which chronic liver disease develops. Most studies of chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis have been follow-up studies of patients who have received transfusions. An average of 50 percent of these patients were shown to have persistently elevated serum aminotransferase levels, and of those who underwent liver biopsy, 60 percent had chronic active hepatitis and 10 to 20 percent had cirrhosis. 1 Only a few studies have examined the rate and severity of chronic liver disease in patients who did not acquire their infections from blood transfusions. 2 3 4 5 6 7 In these . . .