He has also been active in advancing legislation aimed at the prevention and elimination of chronic viral hepatitis.

Occasionally, liver biopsy is required to monitor the progress of treatment, such as in chronic viral hepatitis.

These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.

Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.

Chronic viral hepatitis.

We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.

When interferon is used for chronic viral hepatitis, a hepatologist or gastroenterologist is most likely to supervise treatment.

Alcohol abuse and chronic viral hepatitis are the most common causes of cirrhosis, but it can also be caused by medicines or by another disease (such as hemochromatosis).

The compound glycyrrhizic acid, found in liquorice, is now routinely used throughout Japan for the treatment and control of chronic viral hepatitis, and there is a possible transaminase-lowering effect.

We report here 2 cases of opportunistic infections occurring after 3 months and 6 weeks, respectively, of IFN given for chronic viral hepatitis C in intravenous drug using seropositive patients.

Little is known on modulators of cirrhosis risk, apart from other diseases that cause liver injury (such as the combination of alcoholic liver disease and chronic viral hepatitis, which may act synergistically in leading to cirrhosis).

Liver cirrhosis, whether from chronic viral hepatitis infection or alcoholism, is associated with the development of liver cancer, and the combination of cirrhosis and viral hepatitis presents the highest risk of liver cancer development.

Following the discovery of the antiviral activity of the thiazolides Rossignol went to Stanford University in California to study interferon stimulated gene pathways and chronic viral hepatitis under Prof. Emmet Keeffe and Prof. Jeffery Glenn.

Because chronic viral hepatitis is so common, and liver cancer so deadly, liver cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths in the world, and is especially common in East Asia and parts of sub-Sarahan Africa.

Interferon alfa is the most promising treatment for chronic viral hepatitis, suppressing viral replication in about 30% of patients with chronic hepatitis B or C. In patients with cirrhosis interferon alfa may improve the outcome of the disease and obviate the need for liver transplantation.