Asymptomatic
Inapparent illness
Flu-like symptoms
Malaise
Fulminant symptoms
(suddenly, severe)
Fatal
Figure 7-1. Range of hepatitis symptoms
Treatment. Give supportive therapy. Before 1990, there was no
effective treatment for acute or chronic hepatitis. Now there is treatment for both
chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
-- Forty to fifty percent of HCV patients have an improved liver
condition with treatment.
-- For chronic HDV patients, forty percent improve with treatment.
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