...Jorge Soares; António Ferreira; André Silva-Pinto; Francisco Almeida; Carmela Piñeiro; Rosário Serrão; António Sarmento Background: The role of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for Hepatitis C viral load (HCV-VL) and liver fibrosis is poorly understood. This study aimed at evaluating the influence...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hepatitis C antibody Chemiluminescence immunoassay Strategy Signal-to-cutoff ratio Hepatitis C Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the causative...

...I.S. Elefsiniotis; E. Vezali; C. Mihas; G. Saroglou Objectives: To investigate early viral kinetics, sustained virological response (SVR) rates and their predictors, in treatment-naïve, genotype-4-infected, chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients treated with PEG-IFNα2b plus ribavirin. Patients...

...Matthias Schröter; Heinz-Hubert Feucht; Peter Schäfer; Bernhard Zöllner; Rainer Laufs Among patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis, a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can be observed. In a prospective study, sera of 273 patients were examined for the presence of HCV...

...Wolfgang H. Caselmann; Stefan Eisenhardt; Michael Alt Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNS) can be used to specifically inhibit hepatitis C viral gene expression. Due to its high degree of conservation and its important function as internal ribosomal entry site, the 5’-non-coding region...

...Toshikazu Uchida Damage and necrosis of hepatocytes in viral hepatitis C is considered to be immune mediated as in hepatitis B. Hepatocellular necrosis accompanies infiltration of lymphocytes and this feature, called necroinfiammation, characterizes all types of viral hepatitis and corresponds...

...Chun-Hsiang Wang; Lein-Ray Mo; Ruey-Chang Lin; Jen-Juan Kuo; Kuo-Kuan Chang; Jieh-Jen Wu Background/Aims: Patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) can achieve a sustained virologic response if they received pegylated interferon plus ribavirin therapy; however, some of them do not respond or relapse...

...Osamu Yokosuka; Shosuke Iwama; Noriaki Suzuki; Motohide Takashi; Yasuo Hirai; Katsuo Uchiumi; Michio Kimura; Nobuaki Gotou; Shinichi Hino; Akira Hayasaka; Tatsuo Kanda; Shigenobu Kawai; Kenichi Fukai; Fumio Imazeki; Hiromitsu Saisho Objective: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA titer and HCV genotype...

... obtained from 74 patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C who visited Yanbian Hospital, located in northeast China, were analyzed in this study. The study group included 22 cases of chronic hepatitis B (B-CH), 17 cases of liver cirrhosis B (B-LC), 7 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (B-HCC), 16 cases...

...), and 86, 98 and 100% in the group B + γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GTP) group (group C), respectively. When hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis C antibody (HCV-Ab) were also taken into account, abnormal results were found in every case in all of the HCC groups. Conclusion: C-HCC was found...