The three-year course of the cure after falling ill with a non-A/non-B hepatitis may be regarded as benign in 27 female patients. In several patients slight subjective complaints developed. Seven women even took the load of a new pregnancy. Transitions into a chronically aggressive hepatitis or cirrhosis were not observed.
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