Treatment of chronic hepatitis C with type I interferons and ribavirin can be associated with exacerbation of hepatitis and sometimes liver decompensation. We report two patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection...
Introduction. Liver biopsy is a complementary method for diagnosis, staging and therapeutic guidance in liver diseases, where chronic viral hepatitis are the most acknowledged causes for the indication of histopathologic...
Objective. To determine intrafamilial seropositivity of HBV and HCV and to compare them in families of infected persons with HBV and HCV in Hamadan clinic of hepatitis. Material and methods. In this analytic cross-sectio...
Hepatitis E virus is one of the most common causes of acute hepatitis worldwide, with the majority of cases occurring in Asia. In recent years, however, an increasing number of acute and chronic hepatitis E virus infecti...
Hepatitis C antiviral long-term treatment against cirrhosis (HALT-C) trial
It is a comment of an article published in N Engl J Med. 2008;359:2429-41
Gilbert’s syndrome and antiviral therapy of hepatitis C
Treatment of chronic hepatitis C with type I interferons and ribavirin can be associated with exacerbation of hepatitis and sometimes liver decompensation. We report two patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection...
Percutaneous liver biopsy – 2 decades of experience in a public hospital in the South of Brazil
Introduction. Liver biopsy is a complementary method for diagnosis, staging and therapeutic guidance in liver diseases, where chronic viral hepatitis are the most acknowledged causes for the indication of histopathologic...
Intrafamilial seropositivity of hepatitis in patients with hepatitis B and C virus in hepatitis clinic in Hamadan, Iran
Objective. To determine intrafamilial seropositivity of HBV and HCV and to compare them in families of infected persons with HBV and HCV in Hamadan clinic of hepatitis. Material and methods. In this analytic cross-sectio...
Hepatitis E virus: new faces of an old infection
Hepatitis E virus is one of the most common causes of acute hepatitis worldwide, with the majority of cases occurring in Asia. In recent years, however, an increasing number of acute and chronic hepatitis E virus infecti...