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P-70 HEPATITIS B IMMUNITY AMONG CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE UNDER HEMODIALYSIS

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) has been a cause of acute and chronic hepatitis with progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Alanna Calheiros Santos, Juliana Gil Melgaço, Lucas Lima da Silva, Vanessa Duarte da Costa, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Julia Trece Marques, Giselle Prado do Nascimento, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Livia Melo Villar   +9 more
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A genetic validation study reveals a role of vitamin D metabolism in the response to interferon-alfa-based therapy of chronic hepatitis C [PDF]

, 2012
Background: To perform a comprehensive study on the relationship between vitamin D metabolism and the response to interferon-α-based therapy of chronic hepatitis C.
Badenhoop, Klaus, Berg, Thomas, Bibert, Stephanie, Bochud, Pierre-Yves, Bojunga, Jörg, Burgisser, Philippe, Cerny, Andreas, Dufour, Jean-François, Geier, Andreas, Gerlach, Tilman J, Heim, Markus H, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lange, Christian M, Malinverni, Raffaele, Moradpour, Darius, Müller, Tobias, Negro, Francesco, Regenass, Stephan, Sarrazin, Christoph, Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study Group,, Zeuzem, Stefan   +20 more
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Significant down-regulation of growth hormone receptor expression revealed as a new unfavorable prognos- tic factor in hepatitis C virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2021
Background/Aims Growth hormone (GH) is the main regulator of somatic growth, metabolism, and gender dimorphism in the liver. GH receptor (GHR) signaling in cancer is derived from a large body of evidence, although the GHR signaling pathway involved in ...
Ching-Chih Lin, Ta-Wei Liu, Ming-Lun Yeh, Yi-Shan Tsai, Pei-Chien Tsai, Chung-Feng Huang, Jee-Fu Huang, Wan-Long Chuang, Chia-Yen Dai, Ming-Lung Yu   +9 more
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Identification of recent cases of hepatitis C virus infection using physical-chemical properties of hypervariable region 1 and a radial basis function neural network classifier

BMC Genomics, 2017
Background Identification of acute or recent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections is important for detecting outbreaks and devising timely public health interventions for interruption of transmission.
James Lara, Mahder Teka, Yury Khudyakov
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Risk factors and outcome among a large patient cohort with community-acquired acute hepatitis C in Italy [PDF]

, 2006
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, Antonucci, Giorgio, Babudieri, Sergio, Cariti, Giuseppe, Di Marco, Vito, Fabris, Paolo, Ferrari, Carlo, Francavilla, Ruggero, Massari, Marco, Medda, Emanuela, Pastore, Giuseppe, Santantonio, Teresa, Scotto, Gaetano, Stroffolini, Tommaso, Toti, Mario   +14 more
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs: a global mapping of service delivery

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for all people at substantial risk of HIV as part of combination prevention.
Graham Shaw, Robin Schaefer, Heather-Marie A Schmidt, Annie Madden, Judy Chang, Antons Mozalevskis, Busisiwe Msimanga-Radebe, Nabeel Mangadan Konath, Annette Verster, Rachel Baggaley, Michelle Rodolph, Virginia Macdonald   +11 more
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Correlation between hepatitis B G1896A precore mutations and HBeAg in chronic HBV patients [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important health concern worldwide, with critical outcomes. Hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) negative chronic hepatitis B is frequently caused by a mutation (G1896A) in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) precore (
Adli, A.H., Karami, C., Khodabakhshi, B., Moradi, A., Tabarraei, A., Zhand, S.   +5 more
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Hepatitis C and hepatic steatosis [PDF]

QJM, 2010
Hepatic steatosis is commonly seen in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection, and the two together have a greater association than by chance alone. Hepatitis C virus is closely associated with lipid metabolism throughout its lifecycle. Hepatic steatosis is more common in genotype 3 infection, due to direct viral effects including through ...
J H, Patel, J F L, Cobbold, H C, Thomas, S D, Taylor-Robinson   +3 more
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Liver transplantation for viral hepatitis in 2015 [PDF]

, 2016
Liver transplantation (LT) is a life-saving treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease and for patients with liver cell cancer related to liver disease.
Bortoluzzi, Ilaria, Burra, Patrizia, Ferrarese, Alberto, Gambato, Martina, Germani, Giacomo, Nadal, Elena, Russo, FRANCESCO PAOLO, Senzolo, Marco, Zanetto, Alberto   +8 more
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Best practices for engaging with affected communities: chronic hepatitis B as a case study

Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Hepatitis B is the single most common cause of liver cancer, affecting > 250 million people worldwide (mostly in resource limited communities) and killing > 1 million people annually. The condition is marked by poor rates of diagnosis (14%) and treatment
Thomas Tu, Nafisa Yussf, Lien Tran, Kim Ngo, Su Wang, Adi Mondel, Isabelle Purcell, Jacki Chen, Wendy Lo, Bright Ansah, Kenneth Kabagambe, Soumen Basu, Dee Lee, Supa Chantschool, Chris Munoz, Ivana Dragojevic, Marko Korenjak, Fiona Borondy-Jenkins, Yasmin Ibrahim, Beatrice Zovich, Chari Cohen   +20 more
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