Surgery in patients with hepatitis

The results of thirteen major operations performed in twelve patients with various forms of hepatitis are reviewed. five patients succumbed shortly after surgery, four of them with acute yellow atrophy of liver and one following septic shock. In the patients with acute viral hepatitis, associated malignancy is assumed to have contributed to death. One patient with chronic active hepatitis treated by corticosteroids had an uneventful recovery, while two patients with the same disease, to whom corticosteroids were not administered, succumbed to hepatic failure.