This film is a review of viral hepatitis for physicians. The epidemiology, incubation period, immunity, transmission, and incidence of the disease are presented. The symptoms, proper physical examination, laboratory findings, treatment, and pathology of the disease are detailed. The differential diagnosis of viral hepatitis from obstructive jaundice, hemolytic jaundice, infectious mononucleosis, cirrhosis, metastatic carcinoma, toxic hepatitis, Weil's disease, and amebic hepatitis is outlined. The systemic and gastrointestinal symptoms of viral hepatitis without jaundice are given, and laboratory tests for diagnosis are listed. The prognosis and recovery period for patients with hepatitis are given. The symptoms, signs, laboratory data, and treatment of chronic hepatitis are presented. All visuals in this film are graphics or animation.
Copyright:
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Extent:
020 min.
Color:
Black and white
Sound:
Sound
Provenance:
Received: May 22, 1958 as a donation from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.