Biological aspects regarding the management of chronic viral hepatitis C in children

Chronic viral hepatitis C: management update.

The management of chronic viral hepatitis C is evolving rapidly. Monotherapy with interferon, the accepted standard of treatment until recently, achieves only a modest sustained virological response rate of 15%. Combination treatment with alpha-2b interferon and ribavirin has been shown to increase sustained response rates to 40% in patients who have never been treated with interferon and to 50...

Biochemical and ultrasound aspects in chronic viral hepatitis C patients.

AIM Biochemical and ultrasound investigations in patients with chronic hepatitis C on a 48-week anti-viral regimen. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of 6 patients, 4 women and 2 men, age range 24-61, were evaluated at the beginning of therapy and compared after 48 weeks of peginterferon alfa-2a and peginterferon alpha-2b regimen at doses established by the National Treatment Program approved by t...

sustained viral response hematological markers during the treatment of chronic hepatitis c infection in children

Ethical Aspects of Obesity Management in Children

Introduction: Childhood obesity is a growing global health problem, but in the view of medical ethics, obesity management in children is associated with challenges. Method and materials: This study is a comprehensive review in English (Cochrane Library, and PubMed) and Persian literature which pointed to the ethical aspects of pediatrics obesity management with content analysis. Results: In t...

Chronic viral hepatitis and the management of chronic renal failure.

Effective control measures to reduce the spread of HBV in dialysis units have had a major beneficial impact on the management of patients with chronic renal failure (Table 3). The exact impact of chronic HBV infection on graft and patient survival following RT remains unclear, and the outcome may depend in great part on the severity of the pre-RT liver disease. RT should only be offered to HBV-...