Hepatitis C virus cirrhosis
Evolution of arterial hypertension in patients with hepatitis C virus cirrhosis after antiviral treatment
... Patients were evaluated at the initiation of antiviral therapy, at the end of therapy (3 months), at 6 months (when virologic response was also assessed) and at 12 months. The patients were divided into 2 groups during ...
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Successful treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1b infection of a patient with compensated cirrhosis after renal transplantation using daclatasvir-asunaprevir combination therapy: a case report and literature review
... ined the patient for pretreatment resistance-associated variants. There were no variants in the L31M and Y93H regions. A computed tomography (CT) scan revealed splenomegaly and a tiny quantity of ascites (Fig. 1). There ...
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Detection of Hepatitis Virus B And C in Archival Autopsy Specimens of Liver Cirrhosis
... In conclusion, this should be the first proof for the earliest occurrence of HCV infection in 1909 by analyzing archival autopsied liver specimens. We also demonstrated by nested RT-PCR using type-specific primers that ...
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Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Interaction Effects of Alcohol and Hepatitis C Virus in Liver Cirrhosis
... The liver is the primary site of alcohol metabolism, and therefore is vulnerable to severe, chronic injury. Chronic heavy alcohol consumption damages the liver (as manifested by fatty liver, steatosis, fi- brosis, ...
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ROLE OF INTERLEUKIN-17 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN HEPATITIS C VIRUS LIVER CIRRHOSIS
... HCV establishes persistent infection in 70% of infected individuals, leading to chronic liver inflammation, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. [5] . The outcome of HCV infection is primarily dictated by the magnitude and ...
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Distinct cellular responses differentiating alcohol and hepatitis C virus induced liver cirrhosis
... before cirrhosis develops, but no longer predominant during cirrhosis ...liver cirrhosis point to the role of macrophages in progression of ethanol- induced liver ...ethanol cirrhosis, but not ...
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SEROPREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C SURFACE ANTIGEN AMONG WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL AT GENERAL HOSPITAL BOGORO, IN BAUCHI STATE NIGERIA
... Hepatitis C virus infection is a major and growing public health problem which could easily lead to chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and even hepatocellular ...
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Critical reappraisal of risk factors for occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C virus
... to hepatitis C virus (HCV) ...HCV-related cirrhosis, with annual incidences of ...to cirrhosis and cancer, and include age, male gender, severity of liver disease at presentation, ...
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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) genotypes distribution among hepatocellular carcinoma patients in Southern Italy: a three year retrospective study
... chronic hepatitis to HCC is variable and nu- merous factors have been identified as important predictors of progression, some related to the host (older age, longer duration of infection, male sex or alcohol ...
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Weighing the benefits of hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance against potential harms
... liver cirrhosis, including chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD), and obesity- related non-alcoholic fatty ...
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Prevalence of HCV Genotypes in Various Geographical Regions
... 1989. Hepatitis C Virus is one of the major causative agents of viral hepatitis (Hepatitis ...of Hepatitis C mostly by cirrhosis and hepatocellular ...This ...
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
... are hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus ...as cirrhosis, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, obesity, aflatoxin exposure, familial/genetic factors, and metabolic ...
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Variables Associated with Cirrhosis Diagnosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C: A Case Control Study
... Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is the leading cause of advanced chronic liver disease in final stage of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and of death related to liver disease in the Western ...and ...
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Assessment of carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque formation among patients with ischemic stroke and hepatitis C virus infection
... Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide endemic disease, with estimated prevalence of 3% all over the world, resulting in 170–200 million infected persons worldwide ...
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Hepatitis C treatment: where are we now?
... Chronic hepatitis C infection affects millions of people worldwide and confers sig- nificant morbidity and ...of hepatitis C. Keywords: hepatitis C, protease inhibitors, directly ...
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Conformational Flexibility in the Immunoglobulin Like Domain of the Hepatitis C Virus Glycoprotein E2
... and C) Residues 532 to 540 of the extended conformation observed in the context of cE2 (PDB 4MWF) (A) and the helical conformation observed in the DAO5/peptide complex (C) are shown as cartoons, with the ...
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Quantitative proteomic analysis in HCV induced HCC reveals sets of proteins with potential significance for racial disparity
... Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is one of the few tu- mors in which the incidence is on the rise worldwide, especially in the United States (US) [1]. The increasing incidence in the US is associated with the rise in hepa- ...
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Prevalence and Clinical study of Hepatitis B in Antenatal Women
... Presence of HBsAg in cord blood does not necessarily indicate another infection as it may represent transient maternally derived antigenemia. Perinatal infection is much more frequent when the mother carries both the ...
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High prevalence of HIV, HBsAg and anti HCV positivity among people who injected drugs: results of the first bio behavioral survey using respondent driven sampling in two urban areas in Mozambique
... for hepatitis C testing likely underestimates the true prevalence of anti-HCV positivity in this ...titis C testing might be related to the lack of specific of the point-of-care test used, or the ...
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Serum HBV RNA quantification: useful for monitoring natural history of chronic hepatitis B infection
... All patients tested positive for HBsAg more than 6 months, negative for markers of the hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis D virus (HDV), and human immunodefi- ciency virus (HIV). ...
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