[Corticotherapy in aggressive chronic hepatitis (ACH)]. / Corticoterapia in hepatita cronica agresiva.

48 patients with the diagnosis of ACH, admitted in the interval 1972-1981 and subjuected to corticotherapy were investigated by hepatic puncture biopsy with Vim-Silverman needls. The dose of prednison was of 15-20 mg daily for 2-4 years, with a mean 20 months. Corticotherapy was efficient in 73% of the cases, stabilization of the clinical and hepatic functional pictures being obtained. In 17% of the cases the hepatic process persited unmodified and in 10% ACH evolved towards cirrhosis.