Clinical and psychopathological features of the course and outcome of the first psychotic episode.
Recently it has been established that cytokines are involved in the regulation of the body’s defense reactions in response to a pathogen and form an independent system for regulating homeostasis.
Yuri Bazhora +4 more
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Lipoprotein Receptors and Lipid Enzymes in Hepatitis C Virus Entry and Early Steps of Infection
Viruses are obligate intracellular agents that depend on host cells for successful propagation, hijacking cellular machineries to their own profit. The molecular interplay between host factors and invading viruses is a continuous coevolutionary process ...
Eve-Isabelle Pécheur
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Chronic hepatitis B affects more than 250 million individuals worldwide, putting them at risk of developing liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. While antiviral immune responses are key to eliminating hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections, insufficient ...
Percy A. Knolle +4 more
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Should patients with abnormal liver function tests in primary care be tested for chronic viral hepatitis: cost minimisation analysis based on a comprehensively tested cohort [PDF]
Background Liver function tests (LFTs) are ordered in large numbers in primary care, and the Birmingham and Lambeth Liver Evaluation Testing Strategies (BALLETS) study was set up to assess their usefulness in patients with no pre-existing or self ...
AA Butt +52 more
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Monitoring response to hepatitis B and C in EU/EEA: testing policies, availability of data on care cascade and chronic viral hepatitis-related mortality – results from two surveys (2016) [PDF]
Objectives: The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a European Regional Action Plan (EAP) to fast-track action towards the goal of eliminating viral hepatitis. Robust monitoring is essential to assess national programme performance.
De Brujin +11 more
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Background Hepatitis E virus infection usually causes an acute and self-resolving hepatitis. In areas where chronic hepatitis B virus infection is prevalent, acute hepatitis E virus superinfection on chronic hepatitis B virus infection occurs ...
Chau-Ting Yeh +3 more
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The Dynamics of Incidence of Chronic Hepatitis B and C in the Population of Almaty city for 2001-2014 [PDF]
The results of a retrospective epidemiological analysis revealed a sharp decline in the incidence of acute hepatitis B among the entire population of Almaty and the absence of acute hepatitis B, acute hepatitis C and chronic hepatitis C among children ...
Maria N. Omarova +4 more
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Background/Purpose: Effective antiviral-therapy can reduce the risk of liver cirrhosis related hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Yet, the difference of hepatocellular carcinoma development in chronic hepatitis
Ming-Tsung Lin +8 more
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Liver Allograft: Its Use in Chronic Active Hepatitis with Macronodular Cirrhosis, Hepatitis B Surface Antigen [PDF]
A patient suffering from chronic active hepatitis with macronodular cirrhosis, positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), was treated with an orthotopic liver allograft.
Corman, JL +7 more
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Risk factors and outcome among a large patient cohort with community-acquired acute hepatitis C in Italy [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of acute hepatitis C has changed during the past decade in Western countries. Acute HCV infection has a high rate of chronicity, but it is unclear when patients with acute infection should be treated.
Ancarani, Fausto +14 more
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