Chronic hepatitis C infection can cause long-term damage to your liver. But antiviral medicine can cure it most of the time. (Photo Credit: Science Photo Library / Getty Images) You generally get infected with the hep C virus when you come into contact with the blood — even a tiny amoun...
Chronic hepatitis C infection can cause long-term damage to your liver. But antiviral medicine can cure it most of the time. (Photo Credit: Science Photo Library / Getty Images) You generally get infected with the hep C virus when you come into contact with the blood — even a tiny amoun...
Hepatitis A Test Hepatitis B Test Hepatitis C Test Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Real Time PCR (Viral Load) Herpes Varicella Zoster, IgG (Chicken Pox) Homocysteine Test Immunoglobulins Iron Level Kidney Function Test Lactate Dehydrogenase LH (Luteinizing Hormone) ...
After one case of fatal liver failure due to hepatitis (in the washout and 300 mg DAC-HYP reinitiation group) in the SELECTION trial [33] as well as four cases of serious liver injury (confounded by concomitant drugs associated with liver toxicity) in EXTEND [35], a benefit-risk reassessm...
Injected drugs using a needle, syringe, or other device that someone else used first Have had or are getting tested fortuberculosis,hepatitis, or any sexually transmitted disease, includingsyphilis,gonorrhea,chlamydia, orherpes Have exchanged sex for drugs or money ...
Bacterial and viral infections, such as HIV and hepatitis C. Some vaccines, such as for measles, mumps, and rubella, influenza, hepatitis B, and COVID-19. These infections can make your body destroy your platelets. Some medicines. Certain drugs, such as heparin, quinine, some diabetes medica...
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is described as a fatty liver for which no secondary causes of the condition, such as alcohol use or hepatitis viral infection, can be found [1]. A diagnosis of this disease can be determined by identifying the connection between a lack of hepatocell...
Non-HDL-C serves as a marker for the cholesterol content of atherogenic ApoB-containing lipoproteins, although it does not account for the number of these particles. Serum non-HDL-C can be calculated using the following formula: non-HDL-C = Total cholesterol − HDL-C. Existing evidence sug...
there was no change in hepatic fat or body weight; however, the group randomized to the glucose-only beverages had significant improvement in factors related to cardiovascular disease progression: insulin sensitivity, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxid...
Symptoms are resembling those of hepatitis A. Clinical manifestations are similar in developing and industrialized countries [70]. The incubation period ranges from 15 days to nine weeks (mean 40 days). The prodromal phase is quite variable, and can manifest as asthenia, fever, and digestive ...