Chronic viral hepatitis affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide and each year millions
more people become infected. In Chronic Viral Hepatitis Second Edition a panel of
distinguished clinicians and clinical investigators build upon the first edition by
comprehensively reviewing all the relevant new information regarding resistance side effects
and therapies for chronic viral hepatitis. The text covers recent advances in the understanding
of pathogenesis of viral hepatitis while discussing promising agents in development for its
treatment. The authors devote special attention to reactivation of hepatitis B with
chemotherapy and immunosuppression herbal and non-traditional therapies chronic viral
hepatitis in the pediatric population and immunology and immunotherapy of HCV and provide
relative costs for all diagnostic and therapeutic options. Authoritative and up-to-date
Chronic Viral Hepatitis Second Edition offers today's gastroenterologists internists
hepatologists and infectious disease specialists a practical guide to the recognition
diagnosis and treatment of chronic viral hepatitis from a multidisciplinary approach.
