[The characteristics of the course of viral hepatitis C]

Time-related course and results of examination were studied in patients with viral hepatitis C, having gotten infected through blood. Based on the comparison of similar indicators in patients with viral hepatitis B particular features were revealed of the clinical course of viral hepatitis C. These are as follows: short-in-duration prejaundice period, in other instances there is no prejaundice period at all, subfebrile states set in quite often; among other features are dyspepsia-like events together with signs of a damage to pancreas. There has been noted a slow dynamics of the icteric period reversibility, with biochemical indicators showing the same tendency.