Treatment of epidemic hepatitis at the present stage

Abstract

The lack of specific information about the causative agent of epidemic hepatitis makes it difficult to develop the most promising etiotropic treatment. The unresolvedness of many important questions of pathogenesis made the pathogenetic basis of therapy controversial. As a result, the practice of treating epidemic hepatitis to date has been largely empirical. A large number of different recommendations have been published, often diametrically opposite. The methods of treatment, highly effective according to some authors, turned out to be completely ineffective and even dangerous in the observations of others (for example, the use of methionine, Sherlock, 1958; AF Bilibin, 1962).

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