December 30, 2012
Here are more notes I jotted down at the 2012 Liver Meeting in Boston: For those with hepatitis C and diabetes, there is a 14-fold increased chance of complications from diabetes versus a 4-fold increase in hepatitis C complications. If you have varices or liver cancer, your medical provider should screen you for hepatic encephalopathy (HE); Mild [...]
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December 8, 2012
Here is the second part of my December HCV Snapshots column, highlighting some of the posters presented at the 2012 Liver Meeting. This was originally published in the December HCV Advocate. Abstract # 1751 Is There a Real Difference in Viral Response of Chronic Hepatitis C between Men and Women? Lead Author Stefan Mauss, et al. Results and Conclusion This investigated previously [...]
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