The most common cause of chronic hepatitis is acute acute viral hepatitis. Currently, there is an opportunity to chronicle four of the seven forms of acute viral hepatitis - B, C, D, G.
Chronic hepatitis is a polyetiological diffuse inflammatory process in the liver that lasts for more than 6 months (Recommendations of the European (Rome, 1988) and World (Los Angeles, 1994) congresses of gastroenterologists). Unlike cirrhosis of the liver in chronic hepatitis does not violate the architectonics of the liver.
