Hepatitis in simple terms means ‘inflammation of the liver’ (Hepat or hepar is the Greek word for liver and hepatic means pertaining to the liver). In the video, Dr. Vinod Kumar Mishra, an eminent gastroenterologist with over 35 years of experience speaks to you about the role of inflammation in hepatitis.
Every now and then we come across several medical conditions such as tonsillitis, hepatitis, appendicitis. Have you noticed that these conditions have a common factor, they all have the suffix ‘itis’. What does ‘itis’ mean? Medically the word ‘itis’ means inflammation and when it is used as a suffix with any organ it simply means ‘inflammation of that particular organ’.
Talking about hepatitis, Dr. Mishra explains the science behind inflammation and what it means to the body and a few insights about:
- Immune response stimulation
- Repair and regeneration process
- Role of collagen in repair and regeneration process
- Regulation of repair and regeneration process
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