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Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes liver swelling, called inflammation. Hepatitis C can lead to serious liver damage. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) ...
Measure the quantity of the hepatitis C virus in the blood, called the viral load. Show the genotype of the virus. Tests for liver damage. One or more of the ...
The hepatitis C virus slowly damages the liver over many years, often progressing from inflammation to permanent, irreversible scarring (cirrhosis). Often, ...
It's estimated that 2 to 3 million people in the U.S. are living with the hepatitis C virus, and hundreds of thousands of them are undiagnosed.
It is spread through contact with blood that's infected with the virus. Numerous factors have been associated with an increased risk for this infection, such as ...
Results of these tests can help guide treatment decisions. Hepatitis C infection is treated with antiviral medications that can clear the virus from the body.
"Hepatitis C is another RNA virus, actually not that different from coronavirus in some ways," says Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases ...
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 ...
A transplant hepatologist explains findings from a study showing positive outcomes with liver transplant from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-seropositive donors to ...
But traditional post-transplant hepatitis C therapy can take up to a year, is potentially toxic and can lead to organ rejection. Now, at the American ...
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