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Saturday, December 22, 2007

A Simple Guide to Hepatitis - Update

A Simple Guide to Hepatitis - Update
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Hepatitis Update:
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There are now 7 types of Hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

The most common are Type A, B and C.

All hepatitis viruses can cause acute hepatitis.

Viral hepatitis types B, C, and D can cause chronic hepatitis.

Hepatitis B together with D has been found to cause more complications in patients than Hepatitis B alone.

New drugs like
lamivudine,
adefovir,
entecavir and
telbivudine
has been approved by FDa for treatment of hepatitis B.

Hepatitis C is now curable with the new drugs.

There are also many drugs on trial at the moment which can potentially cure HBV and HCV

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