Hepatitis is a disease that includes any type of inflammation of the liver, the result of a complex process that occurs when the liver suffers an injury. Doctors call the inflammation that lasts less than six months acute hepatitis and inflammation that lasts longer than six months chronic hepatitis. While there are many causes of liver inflammation, clinicians divide them into two main categories: viral hepatitis and non-infectious hepatitis.
- How Many People Have Viral Hepatitis?
- Why Is the Liver So Important?
- The Relationship Between the Liver and the Digestive System
- Viral Hepatitis
When most people think of hepatitis, they're usually thinking about viral hepatitis. There are five viruses that commonly infect the liver, named using letters of the alphabet -- A through E. What makes viral hepatitis confusing is that each one of these viruses causes a slightly different type of disease and has a different way of spreading. Some of these viral infections can result in acute, chronic or both forms of hepatitis. Since these viruses spread from person to person, doctors also call this type of hepatitis infectious hepatitis.
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