hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is a serious public health concern throughout the world. despite its public health prominence, however, how surveillance systems for hepatitis c should be designed is still a challenging issue especially in developing countries such as iran. establishing a surveillance system needs an ongoing process of case investigation, data collection, analysis of data and ...

BACKGROUND No study has compared the long-term prognoses of hepatitis C patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody-negative individuals and investigated the effects of interferon (IFN) treatment. To clarify the long-term prognosis of HCV-positive residents of an isolated Japanese island and prospectively investigate the effects of IFN treatment in comparison with the HCV-negative general po...

conclusions this results the same as many similar studies demonstrated that common hcv genotypes in iranian patients were 1a, 3a and 1b, respectively. patients with 1a and 1b genotypes have lower responses to interferon treatment, and it is reasonable to perform early screening to diagnose and determine hcv genotype for effective treatment and diagnose high-risk cases. results in overall, 509 p...

An estimated 170 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), including approximately 3 million in the United States. Hepatitis C virus disease accounts for approximately 10,000 deaths annually in this country, with this number expected to increase by 2or 3-fold by 2020. It is estimated that HCV coinfection is present in 30% (approximately 240,000) of the individuals with...

Aims: The study aimed at determining the epidemiological feature and burden of infectious markers among asymptomatic adult population in Koforidua. Methods: This is a hospital-based retrospective conducted Eastern Regional Hospital comprised review secondary data prospective blood donors who visited facility bank from January 2015 to December 2020. Archived 22,648 comprising gender, age, reside...

Renal patients are overexposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Hepatitis C virus infection may induce renal disease, i.e., cryoglobulinemic membrano-proliferative glomerulopathy and non-cryoglobulinemic nephropathy. Hepatitis C virus impacts general outcomes in chronic kidney disease, dialysis or transplanted patients. Hepatitis C virus infection is now about to be only part of their medi...

ackground: Hepatitis C virus or HCV is a blood borne pathogen, transmitted primarily via blood, body secretions and by piercing through skin (percutaneous), veins and mucosal surfaces. Prevalence of HCV in Pakistan is 4.5-8%. The prevalence of HCV in diabetic patients is reported to be 14.9% in 2016. Different studies show different prevalence of Hepatitis C in local population of Pakistan. Thi...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic hepatitis worldwide, which finally leads to development of hepatocellular carcinoma. Chronic hepatitis C is characterized by several histological features in the liver which discriminate it from other forms of hepatitis: bile duct damage, lymphoid follicles and steatosis (fatty change). Little is known, however, about the role of HCV or its vi...

In July 2000, symptomatic acute hepatitis C was diagnosed in five patients who had attended the emergency room of a municipal hospital on the same day, about 6 weeks before. Investigation of the remaining 65 patients visited at the emergency room on that day disclosed that 8 patients had a positive anti-hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) test and 4 of them had biochemical evidence of acute anicteric ...

objectives the aim was to study the prevalence of thrombocytopenia in hcv patients without cirrhosis and splenomegaly. patients and methods a cross-sectional study was carried out in the gastrointestinal out patient department (g.i. opd) of the sindh institute of urology and transplantation (siut) from september-november 2013. 30 patients aged between 18 - 60 years with a positive anti-hcv resu...