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The hepatitis C virus slowly damages the liver over many years, often progressing from inflammation to permanent, irreversible scarring (cirrhosis). Often, ...
Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious disease specialist, says the virus causes inflammation of the liver, and is transmitted from person to person via an ...
In most cases, a liver transplant alone doesn't cure hepatitis C. The infection is likely to return. This means more treatment with antiviral medicines to ...
ANSWER: Receiving a diagnosis of hepatitis C can be distressing. The infection poses a risk of liver damage and, although rare, it may lead to liver cancer.
Millions of Americans are living with chronic hepatitis but most don't know they have the infectious disease. That's why the Centers for Diseases Control ...
ANSWER: It is important for people in your age group to be tested for hepatitis C. Studies have shown that Americans born between 1945 and 1965 are five times ...
Departments that treat this condition · Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Kidney Transplant Program · Liver Transplant Program · Transplant Center. Doctors who ...
A hepatitis C infection in chimpanzees is similar to an infection in humans. But ethical and cost concerns limit medical research with these animals. Although ...
"Hepatitis C is another RNA virus, actually not that different from coronavirus in some ways," says Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases ...
Hepatitis, a disease characterized by inflammation of the liver, affects millions of Americans. There are three common forms: Hepatitis A
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