background hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver diseases among chronic renal failure (crf) patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. the aim of this study was to identify the hepatitis c virus infection in patients under dialysis therapy from tabriz, northwest iran and estimate the risk factors. materials and methods sera of 462 chronic renal failure patients from five ...

Abstract Background HCV and HIV co-infected patients develop cirrhosis more rapidly than mono-infection. Intestinal injury microbial translocation are postulated mechanisms for the rapid progression of cirrhosis. Aim Study effect treatment with DAAs on serum intestinal fatty acid binding protein (I-FABP) as a marker in HCV/HIV its relation to hepatic fibrosis. Comparing level I-FABP mono-infect...

Background and Aims: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can cause hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a significant proportion (≈ 20 %) of individuals with chronic HCV infection (CHC). Currently, CHC is treated with peginterferon and ribavirin, which depending on genotype approximately 50 to 70% of patients are cured. The so-called “extrahepatic HCV infection” or viral replication in regio...

conclusions serum stnfr-iiα could be used as a potential serum marker in diagnosing hcc among patients with hcv infection. results the serum level of stnfr-iiα was significantly higher in patients with hcc in comparison to the other groups. a positive correlation was found between the serum levels of stnfr-iiα and ast and alt in patients of group-ii. diagnosis of hcc among patients with hcv inf...

BACKGROUND: With chronic infection, hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA can be detected in B cells and associated with B-cell disorders, but these are not well defined. METHODS: The relationship between HCV infection and lymphocyte subpopulations was evaluated rigorously in 120 asymptomatic hemophilic patients, randomly selected from a prospective cohort study. CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, CD19+ B cells...

background and aims: viral hepatitis is a global health problem with a high mortality rate. recently, a new flavi-like virus, provisionally named hepatitis g virus (hgv), has been described. hgv does not induce an immune response that is consistently detectable by using recombinant proteins from prokaryotic expression, therefore studies have been conducted by using polymerase chain reaction (pc...

abstract background: hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection in patients who lack detectable hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) is called occult hepatitis b infection. such infections have been frequently identified in patients with chronic hepatitis cliver disease, but their prevalence is not known. methods: 207 patients with chronic hepatitis c who were hcv -rna and antihcv positive were studied f...

The imbalance of T-helper (Th) lymphocyte cytokine production may play an important role in immunopathogenesis of persistent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. To know whether an imbalance between Th1 and Th2 cytokines is present in chronic HCV infection, serum levels of Th1 cytokines, interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) and interleukin (IL)-2, and Th2 cytokines, IL-4 and IL-10, were measured using en...