| Literature DB >> 8496753 |
F Bortolotti1, V Di Marco, P Vajro, C Crivellaro, L Zancan, G Nebbia, C Barbera, M Tedesco, A Craxi, M Rizzetto.
Abstract
Twenty-three children, aged 3 to 15 years, with chronic delta hepatitis have been followed for 5 to 12 years to evaluate long-term outcome. Although 83% of patients had chronic active hepatitis when first seen, with cirrhosis in 26%, the clinical and biochemical features of the disease remained reasonably stable during observation; liver histologic findings, obtained in 14 patients, worsened in only two.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8496753 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(06)80017-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pediatr ISSN: 0022-3476 Impact factor: 4.406