Corticotherapy in aggressive chronic hepatitis (ACH)
Dobre, D.; Datcu, G.; Botezatu, S.; Bostaca, I.; Cioară, O.; Caţăr, M.; Curic, F.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 86(1): 51-54
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 25591249 Document Number: 185692
48 patients with the diagnosis of ACH, admitted in the interval 1972-1981 and subjuected to corticotherapy were investigated by hepatic puncture biopsy with Vim-Silverman needls. The dose of prednison was of 15-20 mg daily for 2-4 years, with a mean 20 months. Corticotherapy was efficient in 73% of the cases, stabilization of the clinical and hepatic functional pictures being obtained. In 17% of the cases the hepatic process persited unmodified and in 10% ACH evolved towards cirrhosis.