Cholestatic Hepatitis C in Immunocompromised Settings
โ Scribed by Isabel A. Zacharias, Fredric D. Gordon
- Book ID
- 118819576
- Publisher
- Current Science Inc.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1540-3416
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Some liver allograft recipients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection develop hyperbilirubinemia, which might be the result of a cholestatic variant of hepatitis C. We evaluated all liver biopsy samples from 6 liver transplant recipients who had polymerase chain reaction-positive HCV infection and
Recurrent hepatitis C (RHCV) after liver transplantation is almost universal, and occasional patients will have an aggressive course characterized histologically by pericellular/sinusoidal fibrosis and cholestasis, known as fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis (FCH). The early stages and evolution of thi