Patients >60 years may be less responsive to therapy, as they are more likely to have advanced fib...
Determine exposure risk: detailed social history, including alcohol and IV drug use, psychiatric and medical comorbidities, and coinfections.
Chronic HCV: Most cases are mildly symptom...
Goal is to achieve SVR, reduce adverse events (including progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma) and all-cause mortality.
Report acute HCV to state health depar...
Serial viral loads are normally not required, unless a patient has inadequate medication adherence, but all patients treated should have a viral load completed 12...
Cirrhosis of the Liver; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; HIV/AIDS
Algorithm: Hyperbilirubinemia and Jaundice
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B19.20 Unspecified viral hepatitis C without hepatic coma
B17.10 Acute hepatitis C without hepatic coma
B18.2 Chronic viral hepatitis C
50711007 Viral hepatitis C (disorder)
235866006 Acu...
HCV is the most common cause of HCC in the western world. Genotype 1 is most common GT in the United States.
1 of 10 patients with HCV has no identifiable risk factors; 15–25% of HCV-in...
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Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepatocellular nodules and chronically inflamed fibrous septa.
Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepato...