Giovanna, FattovichSolko W., Schalm. 12 Hepatitis C and cirrhosis. 2000:, 241-263. /Hepatitis C and cirrhosis - Fattovich, Schalm - 2000 () Citation Context ...from facing the ignorant attitude or sympathy of others. However, people who know that they have infectious hepatitis need to ...
As cirrhosis develops, signs and symptoms may become more prominent.In addition to worsening fatigue and brain fog, these may include muscle weakness, weight loss, itchy skin, easy bleeding or bruising, jaundice, cola-colored urine and pale or gray stools. Symptoms of advanced cirrhosis may inclu...
In the chronic stage, patients typically go years or decades with no symptoms. This is sometimes referred to as "latent" or "dormant" hepatitis C. Eventually, the chronic hepatitis becomes active with liver inflammation and scarring. Left untreated, this can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure,...
Chronic hepatitis C Most people (about 80%) can't fight off the virus without treatment. In this case, you will develop chronic hepatitis C. Hep C infection causes inflammation in your liver that will eventually lead to damage and permanent scarring (cirrhosis). Cirrhosis of the liver is a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) [1] estimates that about 50 million people globally have chronic hepatitis C, with approximately 242,000 dying from this infection, primarily due to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (sixth most commonly diagnosed malignancy and third leading cause of cancer ...
The experimental results show that a decision tree is able to distinguish chronic hepatitis from normal with accuracy of 69.59% and cirrhosis from normal with accuracy of 76.72% and the C4.5 decision rule is with accuracy of 69.59% for chronic hepatitis and 79.31% for cirrhosis. The experimental...
Hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is a prominent cause of chronic hepatitis,liver cirrhosis, andhepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), with up to 185 million chronically infected individuals worldwide, most of whom are undiagnosed and untreated.1,2A protective vaccine is not available, and those who clear ...
Hepatitis C is one of the major global public health threats. Currently, 0.7% of the world’s population (56.8 million people) are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), which remains a leading cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma [1], accounting fo...
Chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) accounts for approximately 50% of the cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States. Cirrhosis or an adv
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in Spanish patients with HCV infection: relationship between HCV genotype 1b, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma BACKGROUND/AIMS: The influence of the infecting virus genotype on the progression of the underlying liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C ...