[Therapy of chronic hepatitis].

Treatment with glucocorticosteroids alone or in combination with azathioprine can be considered the most successful therapy in "chronic active hepatitis" of the "autoimmune" type. Immunosuppressive treatment of HBs+ chronic active hepatitis remains controversial and should be confined exclusively to severe cases. Caution is even more indicated in chronic active hepatitis of the non-A-non-B type. Antiviral therapy in chronic active hepatitis is still controverted. Relatively little experience has been gained of the enormously expensive interferon treatment.