background hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver diseases among chronic renal failure (crf) patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. the aim of this study was to identify the hepatitis c virus infection in patients under dialysis therapy from tabriz, northwest iran and estimate the risk factors. materials and methods sera of 462 chronic renal failure patients from five ...

Background and Aims: Hepatitis C virus is one of the viral infections transmitted by blood transfusion. Patients with thalassaemia frequently need blood transfusion and are in danger of HCV infection. In most cases of infection (85%) the virus evades the immune system and establishes a chronic infection that may lead to cirrhosis and liver carcinoma. Liver is the main site of HCV replication ...

today, chronic viral hepatitis is considered as a public health problem in the world. totally, 5% of the world population, especially in asia and africa suffer from this problem. the prevalence of acute hepatitis in america is 0.1-0.2 percent, 50% of those with hepatitis c (hcv) and 5-10% of them with hepatitis b (hcv) develop chronic hepatitis. determining hbv and hcv genotypes is important to...

Abstract Background Oral direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have greatly improved treatment efficacy, with sustained virological response (SVR) rates of > 95% HCV monoinfected patients. However, B (HBV)/HCV coinfection is more complex than monoinfection HBV or alone. We evaluated the SVR rate at 12 weeks post-treatment DAAs in patients HCV/HB...

 ABSTRACT Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients who lack detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is called occult hepatitis B infection. Such infections have been frequently identified in patients with chronic hepatitis Cliver disease, but their prevalence is not known. Methods: 207 patients with chronic hepatitis C who were HCV -RNA and antiHCV positive were stu...

background il28b polymorphism is recognized as one of the most prominent predictors of hepatitis c spontaneous and treatment-induced clearance. interestingly, the favorable genotypes of il28b are found to be more frequent in asian ethnicity than caucasian and african populations, respectively. a few studies reported that there is a mysterious association between the il28b polymorphism and the h...

background egypt has one of the highest (16-8%) prevalence rates of hcv infection in the world. approximately 90% of egyptian hcv isolates belong to a single subtype (4a), which responds less successfully to interferon therapy than other subtypes. studies comparing the efficacy and safety of pegifn alfa-2a and pegifn alfa-2b in treatment-naive hcv-infected patients have shown conflicting result...

Background: The clinical significance of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) and some other viral infections is controversial. Objective: To study the prevalence of anticardiolipin antibody (ACLA) and antibeta2glycoproteinI antibody (antibeta2GPI antibody) in HCV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected patients and its association with liver clinical parame...

'die presence anil significance of hepatitis c virus infection among patients with chronic renal failure (crf) on hemodialysis and renal transplant recipient were evaluated a pcrioil of 30 months. a total of 125 patients, comprising 25 recieving chronic hemodialysis, 47 renal transplant candidates and 5.1 renal transplant recipients, were studied with a second generation immunoassay (elisa ii)....