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Chronic Hepatitis (staging)
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(by Jau-Shin WU, M.D., Ph.D.)
(Posted Sep. 16, 1996; Updated May 14, 2009)

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Chronic Hepatitis (staging)

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(Key words: chronic hepatitis, staging)

  • Evaluation of the severity of the chronic hepatitis is made according to the amount of fibrosis and existence of cirrhosis in the liver on histological examination of a biopsied liver tissue.

For professionals:

Several scoring systems have been proposed to evaluate the amount of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis.(Table by Desmet, 1994)

Score Description Knodel Sciot and Desmet
(unpublished)		 Scheuer
0 No fibrosis No fibrosis None None
1 Mild fibrosis Fibrous portal
expansion 		Periportal fibrous
expansion		 Enlarged,fibrotic
portal tracts
2 Moderate fibrosis(blank) Porto-portal septa
(> 1 septum)		 Periportal or portal-portal septa,
but intact architecture
3 Severe fibrosis Bridging fibrosis
(portal-portal or
portal-central linkage 		Portocentral septa
(> 1 septum) 		Fibrosis with architectural
distortion, but no
obvious cirrhosis
4 Cirrhosis Cirrhosis Cirrhosis Probable or definite
cirrhosis

From: Desmet: Hepatology:(1994); 19:1513,; Knodell: Hepatology:(1981); 1:431,; Scheuer: J Hepatology:(1991); 13:372.

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(By Jau-Shin Wu, M.D.; Posted Sep. 16, 1996; Revised May 12, 2009)

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