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lüll The treatment of alcoholic hepatitis Morgan MYAlcohol Alcohol 1996[Mar]; 31 (2): 117-34Alcoholic hepatitis is a precirrhotic lesion; it develops in only a minority of chronic alcohol abusers even after decades of abuse. The clinical spectrum of disease varies from asymptomatic hepatomegaly to florid hepatocellular failure with gastrointestinal bleeding and hepatic encephalopathy. Corresponding variation is observed both in morbidity and mortality. The majority of individuals with mild to moderate alcoholic hepatitis improve significantly following abstinence from alcohol and the provision of a diet sufficient to meet their nutritional requirements; their long-term outcome is determined largely by their ability to maintain abstinence from alcohol. Individuals with severe alcoholic hepatitis require intensive nutritional support and vigorous management of the complications of their liver injury; their outcome is generally poor. A small, carefully selected subgroup of these very sick patients may benefit, at least in the short-term, from treatment with corticosteroids; the place of orthotopic hepatic transplantation, in this patient group, is still the subject of debate. No other treatment modalities have been shown to confer benefit consistently. A number of new therapeutic approaches have been proposed and need to be explored.|Adrenal Cortex Hormones/administration & dosage[MESH]|Combined Modality Therapy[MESH]|Hepatic Encephalopathy/diagnosis/mortality/therapy[MESH]|Hepatitis, Alcoholic/diagnosis/mortality/*therapy[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Liver Function Tests[MESH]|Liver Transplantation[MESH]|Survival Rate[MESH]|Treatment Outcome[MESH] |