What kind hepatitis?: "hepatitis" means inflammation of liver--due to viral infection (cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, a, b, c, d, etc), familial diseases (hemochromatosis, wilson's, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, etc), infiltrative disease (steatohepatitis from fatty liver, granulomatous hepatitis, foreign body reaction), toxic (alcoholic, tylenol), ischemic, congestive, pregnancy-related, etc. Cause determines tx.
Answered 3/10/2012
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Depends: Hepatitis a usually resolves on its own hepatitis b is usually best treated with viread or baraclude hepatitis c usually responds to an Incivek or victrelis (boceprevir) combined with Pegasys and ribavarin.
Answered 11/23/2016
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