conclusions our study suggested that the prevalence rate of hepatitis c virus is below 1% in the general population of mashhad. results in this study the overall seroprevalence of hepatitis c was founded to be 0.2% by using elisa method. however, the overall hepatitis c virus infection prevalence was found to be 0.13% with rt-pcr method. patients and methods three thousand, eight hundred and se...

Abstract: Genotyping of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is important for designing therapeutic strategies and regional specific diagnostic assays. The aim of this study was to identify the HCV genotypes in HCV infected blood donors. This is the first report on HCV genotypes in blood donors in Iran. In this cross-sectional study, 103 blood donors with hepatitis C were investigated for HCV genotype...

The incidence of cholangiocarcinoma, an aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis, is increasing. Hepatitis B and C have been well established as predisposing factors for this malignancy. availability efficacy treatment hepatitis infection has led to a substantial reduction in viral hepatitis-related cholangiocarcinoma mortality. Despite treatment, the potential developing continues exist patie...

Background and Aims: Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most important etiologies of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. Clinical condition of hepatic patients and the outcome of chemotherapy are under impact of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes. Therefore, HCV genotyping is important for prediction of success of chemotherapy and progression of liver diseases. Methods: In thi...

Hepatitis C virus infection is a frequent clinical problem in patients on dialysis and renal transplant recipients. The local prevalence rates of hepatitis C virus infection in patients on peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, or after kidney transplantation are 2%, 9%, and 6%, respectively. Conventional diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection is by anti-hepatitis C virus immunoassays. However, u...

    Abstract   Background: Hepatitis B virus infection is an important cause of liver morbidity and   mortality worldwide. HDV changes the natural course of HBV. The prevalence of HDV infection wasn’t determined in the various groups of HBV infection (carriers, acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and HCC) in Iran. We aimed to research the prevalence of hepatitis D virus infection in v...

BACKGROUND Both uremia and hepatitis C infection is associated with increased oxidative stress. In the present study, we aimed to find out whether hepatitis C infection has any impact on oxidative stress in hemodialysis subjects. METHODS Sixteen hepatitis C (+) hemodialysis subjects, 24 hepatitis C negative hemodialysis subjects and 24 healthy subjects were included. Total antioxidant capacit...

In many countries hepatitis C virus infection has been considered a major factor triggering overt porphyria cutanea tarda. The prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection was retrospectively studied in 87 patients who during a period of 11 years were diagnosed with porphyria cutanea tarda in Stockholm. Among patients with the sporadic form of porphyria cutanea tarda, the prevalence of hepatitis C...