[Results of 10 years hepatitis follow-up]

It is reported on the dispensary care of 789 patients suffering from infectious hepatitis. Of these patients 92.86% healed completely of hepatitis during observation. 2.91% developed sequels after hepatitis, among them 1.03% a posthepatitic hyperbilirubinaemia, 1.03% a chronic persistent hepatitis, 0.17% a chronic aggressive hepatitis, 0.34% a liver cirrhosis, 4.25% had concomitant diseases, such as fatty degeneration of the liver, diseases of the bile duct, pancreatitis, and ventricular ulcer. The probable associations of these diseases with infectious hepatitis are discussed. Three patients suffered from diabetes mellitus. One of these patients developed a chronic aggressive hepatitis and finally an incipient cirrhosis.