hepatitis
Maxim Vinokourov asked:


After infection there comes the incubatory period - time from penetration of a virus into blood before the first signs of disease (so - and developments of the certain changes in a liver). At a hepatitis A, B, C this period can be from 10-20 to 100-200 days and it depends on many factors. Development of a hepatitis passes a sharp phase - the first displays of an infection which can be appreciable and even heavy.

Then the recover could happens, when the virus leaves an organism and the condition of a liver comes to norm. Recover comes after all cases of a sharp hepatitis A and in most cases a of hepatitis B.If it will not occur, the chronic hepatitis develops.

The reasons on which there does not come recover after a sharp infection, usually carry to a condition of immune system. Unequivocally to tell, at whom there will come recover and at whom - is not present, it is impossible.

The chronic hepatitis develops at 5-10 % infected by a virus of a hepatitis B and at, at least, 60 % infected by a virus of a hepatitis C.

How the hepatitis can long proceed?

Sharp hepatitis usually come to the end with recover within 6 months. If the hepatitis proceeds longer than 6 months, speak about a chronic infection. Chronic hepatitis C and B have long-standing, long-term current. Even if thus long time is not observed displays of a hepatitis, the virus can be kept in a liver and continues. The risk of dangerous consequences of all this time is kept. At absence of displays of a hepatitis, but a constant tracking down of signs of a virus (markers of a virus hepatitis) speak about the chronic carrier. The carrier of a virus can become the reason of infection of other people. However carrying does not mean safety for the carrier.

What most dangerous consequences of a hepatitis?

The most dangerous consequence of a sharp hepatitis - development heavy fulminant forms of disease. It occurs seldom: nearby 1 % of cases of a hepatitis A and B in fulminant forms. The most dangerous consequences of a chronic hepatitis - development of a cirrhosis of a liver and a cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma). It occurs on a regular basis. The cirrhosis of a liver develops in 20% of cases of a chronic hepatitis B and in 5-20% of cases of hepatitis C. Virus hepatitis may cause the majority of cases of a cancer of a liver and serve as a principal cause of its change.



Whether can bring a hepatitis to ruin ill?

When it occurs?


The risk of a lethal outcome at sharp forms of a virus hepatitis is insignificant. It fulminant forms of a hepatitis B, as well as 0,1-2,1 % of cases of a hepatitis A with greater probability at adults. The risk of destruction from consequences of a chronic hepatitis makes 15-50 %. At development of a cirrhosis of a liver up to 50 % sick of a chronic hepatitis B and C perishes within 5 years. Outcomes of a chronic hepatitis In are included into number 10 of principal causes of death at men in developing countries (data the CART).

What hepatitis are more dangerous?

All a virus hepatitis are dangerous in their own way, one during the sharp period, others in connection with chronic current and risk of development of a cirrhosis of a liver.

No hepatitis can be disregarded.



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