Hepatitis C in Special Patient Cohorts: New Opportunities in Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis, End-Stage Renal Disease and Transplant Medicine
Worldwide, hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a common infection. Due to new antiviral approaches and the approval of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAA), HCV therapy has become more comfortable. Nevertheless, there are special patient groups, in whom treatment of HCV is still challenging. Due to only few...
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FB/Einrichtung: | FB 05: Medizinische Fakultät |
Dokumenttypen: | Artikel |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 01.12.2015 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 16.04.2019 |
Angaben zur Ausgabe: | [Electronic ed.] |
Quelle: | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) 16 (2015) 8, 18033-18053 |
Schlagwörter: | HCV infection; chronic kidney disease; renal transplantation; decompensated liver cirrhosis; liver transplantation; new therapy regimen; DAA treatment |
Fachgebiet (DDC): | 610: Medizin und Gesundheit |
Lizenz: | CC BY 4.0 |
Sprache: | English |
Anmerkungen: | Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2015/2016 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster). |
Format: | PDF-Dokument |
ISSN: | 1422-0067 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-37269443268 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | DOI: 10.3390/ijms160818033 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-37269443268 |
Onlinezugriff: | ijms-16-18033.pdf |
Worldwide, hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a common infection. Due to new antiviral approaches and the approval of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAA), HCV therapy has become more comfortable. Nevertheless, there are special patient groups, in whom treatment of HCV is still challenging. Due to only few data available, tolerability and efficacy of DAAs in special patient cohorts still remain unclear. Such special patient cohorts comprise HCV in patients with decompensated liver disease (Child-Pugh Class B or C), patients with chronic kidney disease, and patients on waiting lists to renal/liver transplantation or those with HCV recurrence after liver transplantation. HCV infection in these patient cohorts has been shown to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality and may lead to reduced graft survival after transplantation. Successful eradication of HCV results in a better outcome concerning liver-related complications and in a better clinical outcome of these patients. In this review, we analyze available data and results from recently published literature and provide an overview of current recommendations of HCV-therapy regimen in these special patient cohorts.