eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | hepatitis c |
| Symptom | |infection |
| Sentences | 461 |
| PubMedID- 21994698 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) continues to be a major global health problem. |
| PubMedID- 22291576 | infection with hepatitis c virus was associated with 23,000 deaths from liver cancer (95% ci: 21,000–24,000). |
| PubMedID- 24609763 | Chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) often affects the b-cell compartment, leading to the occurrence of autoimmunity and b-cell lymphoproliferation, in particular mixed cryoglobulinemia and b-cell lymphomas. |
| PubMedID- 20173735 | Chronic infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) affects 170 million people worldwide and is an important cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. |
| PubMedID- 20235331 | Both infection with the hepatitis c virus and ifn therapy are associated with decreased serum cholesterol and high cholesterol has been associated with increased likelihood to respond to ifn. |
| PubMedID- 24130726 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a worldwide health problem, affecting over 170 million persons, and is the most common cause of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplantation . |
| PubMedID- 22966221 | Chronic infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). |
| PubMedID- 25489126 | Unlike hbv, infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) does not result in acute or fulminant disease. |
| PubMedID- 23390305 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) typically leads to persistent infection, with >170 million people estimated to be affected worldwide, putting them at risk for chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. |
| PubMedID- 21174240 | The comorbid conditions specifically addressed in the guidelines include developmental disabilities, alcohol and other substance use disorders, traumatic brain injuries and other non-hiv-related neurologic conditions, systemic diseases including co-infection with hepatitis c virus, and hiv-related opportunistic cns disease. |
| PubMedID- 22218720 | Worldwide, infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is common among people who inject drugs (pwid).1 estimates suggest that >70% of new cases of hcv infection are associated with injecting drug use.2 3 epidemiological studies have identified independent risk factors for hcv infection, including sharing of contaminated needles and syringes4–7 and other injecting equipment,8 9 female gender,6 10 duration of injecting11 and intravenous cocaine use.12 13 although the risk factors for incident infection are well established, the literature suggests that a number of barriers may prevent pwid presenting for screening and many pwid face the possibility of hcv infection with a sense of inevitability, fostered by structural barriers to risk avoidance.14 pwid are a priority population in australia as hcv prevalence remains high in this group. |
| PubMedID- 22991587 | It could be suggested that the association between lichen planus and hepatitis c may result from infection with a particular form of hcv, a genotype found only in certain geographic areas. |
| PubMedID- 24187444 | The infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is one of the most important global chronic viral infections worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 21625589 | infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) results in persistent infection in the majority of cases 2. |
| PubMedID- 20460924 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) primarily causes chronic liver disease with characteristic histopathologic features, including hepatic steatosis. |
| PubMedID- 23735863 | Our work represents the first case report of polycystic echinococcosis co-infection with hiv, hepatitis c virus (hcv), and hepatitis b virus (hbv). |
| PubMedID- 20930961 | His past medical history was significant for infection with hepatitis c virus, meningitis, cigarette smoking and previous intravenous drug use. |
| PubMedID- 25767389 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is highly prevalent in chronic kidney disease (ckd) patients, mainly in those on hemodialysis (hd). |
| PubMedID- 23028618 | For each individual, the model captures initial characteristics such as age, gender, mode of transmission, employment status, co-infection with hepatitis c virus, aids diagnosis, hiv resistance level, adherence level, cd4+ cell count, viral load and age of death due to non-hiv related causes. |
| PubMedID- 26389941 | Despite 20 years of intensive research, a vaccine to prevent infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) remains elusive, while two million new hcv infections are estimated to occur worldwide every year 1. |
| PubMedID- 23845776 | Background: hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) associated to infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) has become the fastest-rising cause of cancer-related deaths. |
| PubMedID- 24822024 | Chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) affects more than 170 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of anticipated liver-related death due to the development of cirrhosis and its complications.1 in the last 10 years, standard of care anti-hcv treatment has been founded on the combination of peginterferon (peg-ifn) plus ribavirin (rbv), whose main disadvantages were suboptimal rates of sustained virological response (svr) in difficult-to-treat patients (hcv genotype 1–4, advanced liver fibrosis) and, most of all, side effects profile resulting in poor tolerability and treatment contraindication in some patient subsets (decompensated liver disease and autoimmune disorders).2 the recent availability of culture cell models provided deeper insight in understanding hcv life cycle and was the basis for the development of new drugs targeting non-structural hcv proteins involved in viral replication process, such as ns3 and ns5a/b (figure 1 and table 1). |
| PubMedID- 22662515 | The following patients should be offered a planned elective cs: singleton breech presentation at term, after external cephalic version has failed, has been declined or is contraindicated; multiple pregnancies when the first twin is not cephalic; placenta praevia, minor or major, (close to or covering the os); hiv-positive women who are not on any antiretroviral therapy, have a high viral load or co-infection with hepatitis c irrespective of viral load; and women with primary genital herpes simplex virus infection occurring in the third trimester. |
| PubMedID- 26048049 | Determinants of polyneuropathy were urban residence (p=0.02), infection with hepatitis c virus (p=0.002), infection with hiv (p=0.012) and presence of albuminuria (p=0.0001). |
| PubMedID- 22192700 | Other viral infection, especially with hepatitis c, can be associated with necrotizing pns vasculitis . |
| PubMedID- 22894766 | Chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is the predominant aetiology for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) worldwide . |
| PubMedID- 26371878 | This is in contrast to the south west region which had a similar number of hiv infected persons tested (n = 204) but a low hbv prevalence (6%), fig 3. co-infection with hepatitis c in the regions ranged from 0% for the south region to 5% for the center region (fig 3). |
| PubMedID- 23800421 | Co-infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) and/or hepatitis b virus (hbv) influences the morbidity and mortality of patients with hiv. |
| PubMedID- 22038081 | We report on psychometric properties of a new questionnaire to study long-term strategies, practices and tactics that may help injection drug users (idus) avoid infection with hiv and hepatitis c. |
| PubMedID- 23327540 | Chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is common, but underdiagnosed and undertreated worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 19776079 | Background: treatment for drug addiction is effective in reducing the harms of injection drug use, including infection with hiv and/or hepatitis c. |
| PubMedID- 22585716 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in india. |
| PubMedID- 22611419 | Cytokines are intercellular mediators involved in viral control and liver damage being induced by infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv). |
| PubMedID- 23870415 | Hcc enhancing cofactors are co-infection with hepatitis c virus and exposure to aflatoxin. |
| PubMedID- 21113034 | This puts drug users at severe risk of infection with hiv, hepatitis c or other infections.29,30 discussions with law enforcement authorities on how to implement mmt within such settings needs to be addressed by creative measures. |
| PubMedID- 25685452 | These classes have been linked to respective clinical manifestations and depend on the stage of evolution of the host's immune response, extent of associated hepatic fibrosis and co-infection with salmonella or hepatitis c. |
| PubMedID- 22065905 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) can result in both acute and chronic hepatitis. |
| PubMedID- 24475147 | hepatitis c virus (hcv) leads to chronic infection in the majority of infected individuals due to lack, failure, or inefficiency of generated adaptive immune responses. |
| PubMedID- 22499490 | infection with hepatitis c virus is the most common indication for liver transplantation in the united states. |
| PubMedID- 22310781 | Chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major problem affecting a significant percentage of patients with end-stage renal failure (esrd), with a negative impact on patient survival, and associated with accelerated progression of liver damage after undergoing a kidney transplant. |
| PubMedID- 25111807 | infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide, and thus represents a significant public health problem. |
| PubMedID- 20235831 | Background: the natural outcome of infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) varies substantially among individuals. |
| PubMedID- 25959702 | infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) represents a major public health concern worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 22040268 | Of note, prevalence of co-infection with hepatitis c virus was 63%, prevalence of isu was 50%, and 30% of patients were receiving art. |
| PubMedID- 19786343 | These behaviours might in turn help idus prevent an infection with hepatitis c or hiv. |
| PubMedID- 22518275 | Furthermore, similar to previous studies showing high cytotoxic activity and effector memory phenotype of extrathymic dp cells in cynomolgus monkeys and in a chimpanzee experimental infection with hepatitis c virus , our results indicate that the dp cells purified from peripheral lymphoid tissues of chagasic animals show cytotoxic activity as compared to naïve single-positive cd4+ or cd8+ t cells. |
| PubMedID- 23153151 | hepatitis c testing, infection, and linkage to care among racial and ethnic minorities in the united states, 2009-2010. |
| PubMedID- 24114816 | Background and rationale: chronic infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is associated with a higher prevalence of insulin resistance compared to the general population. |
| PubMedID- 21450832 | Following infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv), in most cases immunity fails to eradicate the virus, resulting in slowly progressing immunopathology in the hcv-infected liver. |
| PubMedID- 26038445 | The etiology of this blood borne disease is infection with the hepatitis c virus (hcv).1 acute hcv infection causes mild disease and is usually asymptomatic. |