Patterns of liver injury and anxiety degree in pediatric patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C as predictors of liver fibrosis prognosis

Abstract

Chronic viral hepatitis B and C in pediatric patients had already became and important social problems and their peculiarities studied by scientists nowadays. In research were examined 50 patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C and 25 healthy patients. All enrolled patients underwent to clinical examination, laboratory testing, estimation of liver fibrosis degree, degree of anxiety, de Ratio index, R-index (to determine patterns of liver injury).