Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. Though it is most often caused by one of five different viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E), there are also nonviral causes ...

When news broke in 2014 that hepatitis C, a viral disease affecting the liver, could be cured thanks to a new class of direct-acting antiviral drugs, many began to wonder how soon it would be before ...

If you're looking for ways to treat hepatitis C, you have more choices than ever before, including antiviral medicines that cure the disease (the first-line treatment for hep C). But some people ...

For many years examination of hepatic histopathology has been considered ... It has utility in patients with hepatitis C and other liver diseases; and High levels of liver stiffness correlate ...

More than 3 million Americans have a long-term infection from the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Anyone who has this disease can give it to someone else through blood and other bodily fluids.

Background and Aim: Long-term lamivudine treatment for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection induces the emergence of lamivudine resistant HBV YMDD mutant strains. The aim of the present study ...

uke.de Objective Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) was shown to persist for weeks in the absence of HBV and for months after liver transplantation, demonstrating the ability of HDV to persevere in quiescent ...

Colonic motility investigation by modern techniques: time to ‘reclaim’ the value of physiology?

A chest radiograph showed extensive bilateral hilar shadowing. Tests for tissue autoantibodies, hepatitis A, B, and C, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, HIV, herpes simplex virus, adenovirus, ...

Colonoscopy revealed mucosal ulceration presumed to be ulcerative colitis. Histopathology obtained after discharge revealed severe colitis with cytomegalovirus (CMV) inclusions. Serological studies ...

Results: In this study, 22 AILD patients under ICI treatment could be identified. Among these patients, 12 had primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), five had primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), four ...