Follow-up of 52 patients with chronic aggressive hepatitis
Wyss, G.; Stalder, G.A.; Bianchi, L.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 107(15): 520-523
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 854721 Document Number: 123321
52 patients with histologically proven chronic aggressive hepatitis have been followed up for a mean period of 31 months by regular clinical visits, laboratory controls and liver biopsies. Only patients already with a decompensated liver cirrhosis at the time of the first biopsy had a deteriorating course of the disease. According to our criteria of activity of the disease, only 6 cases needed treatment. 6 patients died during the period of follow-up, 5 of them from malignant tumors.