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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

Models can help predict liver cancer in people cured of hepatitis C

Liz Highleyman / 17 September 2020

Three new methods using readily available clinical parameters can help predict who will develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after achieving sustained virological response to hepatitis C treatment, according to studies presented at the recent 2020 Digital ...
Treatment for people living with HIV and HCV

People with HIV do not have higher liver disease risk after hepatitis C treatment

Keith Alcorn / 28 August 2020

People living with HIV do not have a higher risk of liver-related complications or death from liver disease after hepatitis C treatment with direct-acting antivirals, researchers from the French HEPAVIH cohort reported this ...
Coronavirus

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease does not raise the risk of COVID-19, gene study shows

Keith Alcorn / 26 May 2020

People with a genetic profile that strongly predicts non-alcoholic or metabolic-associated fatty liver disease were not at higher risk of being hospitalised with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, an analysis of the ...
Treatment in acute infection

Short-course treatment for recent hepatitis C: some courses may be too short

Keith Alcorn / 07 May 2020

An eight-week course of grazoprevir/elbasvir (Zepatier) achieved a high cure rate in people recently infected with hepatitis C, but another study found that a six-week course of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa) resulted in an inferior ...
NAFLD

Fatty liver raises the risk of death in people with HIV and hepatitis C

Keith Alcorn / 15 September 2019

People with HIV and hepatitis C co-infection who had fatty liver disease were twice as likely to die during a five-year follow-up period as their counterparts without fatty liver disease, ...