Hepatitis B – Casuistic review of Internal Medicine outpatient consultations

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marta N.
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Bacellar, Patrícia, Martins, Helena, Aguiar, M. Manuel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/1557
• topic: Hepatite B; casuística; terapêutica; Hepatitis B; casuistic; treatment

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a dynamic interrelationship between the virus and the host, in which the hosts’ immune response can eradicate the virus, with resolution of the infection, or, on the other hand, be responsible for hepatic and extra-hepatic lesions.Resolution of the acute infection occurs in over 90% of adult cases, but in less than 10% of cases in the infected newborn.The course of HBV infection has several discernable phases and all efforts should be made to prevent infection, to treat patients with chronic hepatitis B, and to prevent cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).The authors made a retrospective analysis of clinical processes of patients diagnosed with HBV infection, followed in an Internal Medicine outpatient department, with the aim of determining, the principal clinical features, as well as evaluating the efficacy of treatment, in the different phases of infection.