Of all hepatitis types, hepatitis C is at the top of the list when liver damage is concerned. We can safely say that the hepatitis C virus is the most important cause of liver problems in many countries. If the acute hepatitis case caused by the hepatitis C virus lays somewhere between ten and fifteen percent, the chronic hepatitis caused by this virus is somewhere at seventy percent of all hepatitis cases caused by this virus.

Hepatitis C, especially chronic hepatitis is a very serious condition that can even lead to death. Liver damage, cancer and liver failure are some of the things that can result if you have chronic hepatitis. The number of people that die from hepatitis C is astonishing. Unlike the other hepatitis types, hepatitis C is known for causing chronic liver problems that may even last a lifetime. Almost eighty percent of the people that have hepatitis C will actually develop a chronic infection of their liver.

People that suffer from hepatitis C can have very different courses of their disease. There are many hepatitis C patients that have no signs of hepatitis and their blood test results come out fine, despite the fact that they actually are infected with the hepatitis C virus. If the doctor uses a biopsy to determine how much damage to the liver the hepatitis virus has done, the results are amazing. There is a mild injury and the overall prognosis is good. These people are the fortunate ones when it comes to hepatitis C. On the other hand, there are the hepatitis C patients who have severe symptoms and their liver is in a bad condition. These people have high levels of the hepatitis C virus in the serum, their other hepatitis testes come out very bad. These hepatitis patients will ultimately suffer from cirrhosis and suffer from liver cancer. There is also the case of the hepatitis patients that have a few signs or symptoms of the infection with the hepatitis C virus. Their test to detect the hepatitis virus are inconclusive and the prognosis is very uncertain.

Chronic hepatitis C is a disease that can lead to chirrosis, cancer and even liver failure. The number of people that suffer from chronic hepatitis C and will develop cirrhosis is about twenty percent of all the hepatitis C patients. However, this is a long process, that lasts about ten years at least.