Chronic active hepatitis is a liver disease caused by infection,
drugs, and metabolic or autoimmune disorders. Necrosis (death) of
liver cells, inflammation and fibrosis may lead to liver failure.
Death within 5 years of onset occurs in 40 to 50% of patients.
Review Date: 03/10/2011
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
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