Utilización de las medicinas alternativas y complementarias por los pacientes con hepatitis C crónica

Incidence, risk factors, and survival of hepatocellular carcinoma in primary biliary cirrhosis: Comparative analysis from two centers

“…These differences can be related to the variability in the prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies in the general population of these two Mediterranean countries, being much higher in Italy. 22,23 Our study also fails to demonstrate that male gender is a risk factor for HCC in PBC when considering the overall series from Italy and Spain, thus totaling the highest series published. This is opposed to results reported in other studies, 4,5,14-16 a discrepancy that can be explained from the duration of follow-up and the number of patients evaluated.…”

The changing epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Europe

“…Similarly, blood safety along with the use of erythropoietin (EPO) and improvement in infection control practices (see below) has greatly decreased HCV infection among haemodialysis patients. Blood safety has also paved the way for IDU to become the main risk factor for HCV transmission (Table 1) and has switched the HCV genotype distribution (among patients younger than 50) (from 1b and 2 to 1a, 3a and 4d) [31,32,76,78,[81][82][83][84][85], and has led vertical transmission to become the almost exclusive source of HCV infection in infants [31,86].…”

“…Subsequently, blood donor screening and use of EPO certainly decreased both prevalence (to <15%) and incidence (to $2.5 per 100 person/years) [91,92]. New infections, however, indirectly transmitted from patient-to-patient via [2,6,[9][10][11][14][15][16]21,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

“…In a preliminary report of 103 patients with acute hepatitis C seen at different Spanish hospitals between 2000 and 2005, 70% had been infected during hospitalisation [31]. In a recent French case-control study, a substantial proportion of patients with community acquired chronic hepatitis C had inhospital or outpatient treatments as the most likely risk factor for infection [113].…”

Prevalence of Hepatitis C in alcoholic liver disease.

“…These high figures decreased in subsequent years, and our study has documented an estimated average weighted prevalence of HCV infection of 18.6% among alcoholics. Nevertheless, this prevalence is much higher than in the general population, reported to be about 1.5%-2% 1,2 ,although HCV prevalence is expected to decrease dramatically due to the availability of DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22192/ijcrms.2017.03.03.002 new treatment 3 , the association of HCV with alcohol consumption still represents a problem of great relevance. In patients with chronic HCV infection, alcohol consumption is a well-known risk factor for progression to advanced forms of liver disease and cirrhosis 4 ; it also increases the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) 5 .…”