Chronic hepatitis is sustained inflammation of the liver persisting for more than six months, defined histologically by ongoing hepatocellular injury and inflammatory infiltration that can progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Its most common causes worldwide are chronic infection with hepat…
Chronic hepatitis is sustained inflammation of the liver persisting for more than six months, defined histologically by ongoing hepatocellular injury and inflammatory infiltration that can progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Its most common causes worldwide are chronic infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses, but it also arises from alcohol, drugs and toxins, metabolic and autoimmune disease. Many cases are clinically silent for years, with nonspecific features such as fatigue and, in advanced disease, jaundice and signs of hepatic decompensation, so diagnosis relies on serology, viral markers, biochemical liver tests, and imaging. Management centers on suppressing or eradicating viral replication with antiviral therapy, removing causative exposures, and surveillance for cirrhosis and liver cancer. The peer-reviewed research collected here in the journal's infectious-disease and liver-research corpus reflects these themes, including tenofovir treatment of chronic hepatitis B, the magnitude and trends of chronic liver disease in hospital-based cohorts, healthcare-worker knowledge and practices for hepatitis B prevention, completion of short-course hepatitis C treatment, vitamin D deficiency in chronic liver disease, and angiogenic markers in hepatocellular carcinoma complicating hepatitis C infection. Together they situate chronic hepatitis within the continuum from viral infection through progressive liver injury to its oncologic and metabolic complications.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 77 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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