abstract：:Self-efficacy or confidence in one's ability to successfully engage in goal-directed behaviour has been shown to influence medication adherence across many chronic illnesses. In the present study, we investigated the psychometric properties of a self-efficacy instrument used during treatment for chronic hepatitis C vi...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Bonner JE,Esserman D,Evon DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 30% of patients with chronic HCV infection have persistently normal ALT levels. Although formerly referred to as 'healthy' or 'asymptomatic' HCV carriers, and thus historically excluded from antiviral treatment, it has now become clear that the majority of these patients have some degree of histological ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Puoti C,Guarisco R,Spilabotti L,Bellis L,Mitidieri Costanza O,Dell' Unto O,Elmo MG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of sequential peginterferon α-2a (Pegasys) therapy for chronic hepatitis B with acute exacerbation [ALT > 10 × upper limit of normal (ULN), bilirubin <2.0 mg/dL]. Four groups of patients categorized by HBeAg status and treatment regimens were studied sinc...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Chen CC,Wang PC,Chang HW,Chen CF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) frequently coinfect and persist long after clinical resolution. We assessed the incidence of low-level (occult) HCV infection (OCI) after sustained virological response (SVR) to standard anti-HCV therapy in individuals with or without past exposure to HBV to recogniz...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Pham TN,Coffin CS,Churchill ND,Urbanski SJ,Lee SS,Michalak TI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is commonly transmitted by intravenous drug use (IDU) but drug users are under represented in many treatment cohorts, this is because of the assumption of lowered treatment success. We assessed HCV treatment outcomes in active intravenous drug users and patients on opiate substitution therapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Jafferbhoy H,Miller MH,Dunbar JK,Tait J,McLeod S,Dillon JF

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and insulin resistance have been reported as negative predictors for sustained virological response (SVR) in hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infected patients treated with pegylated interferon-α plus ribavirin. They are also known to affect serum levels of several cytokines including adipocytokines. But the...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Miki D,Ohishi W,Ochi H,Hayes CN,Abe H,Tsuge M,Imamura M,Kamatani N,Nakamura Y,Chayama K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the association of HIV RNA with indirect markers of liver injury including FIB-4 index, liver enzymes and platelet counts in a high-risk Hispanic population. The data were derived from a prospective study that included 138 HIV/hepatitis C (HCV)-coinfected and 68 HIV-infected participants without he...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Forrester JE,Rhee MS,McGovern BH,Sterling RK,Knox TA,Terrin N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochemicals exert antiviral activity and may play a potential therapeutic role in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In this work, we aimed to isolate NS3 inhibitors from traditional Indian medicinal plants that were found, in our earlier study, to inhibit HCV NS3 protease activity and to evaluate their potential t...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Bachmetov L,Gal-Tanamy M,Shapira A,Vorobeychik M,Giterman-Galam T,Sathiyamoorthy P,Golan-Goldhirsh A,Benhar I,Tur-Kaspa R,Zemel R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C represents a major cause of progressive liver disease that can eventually evolve into cirrhosis and its end-stage complications. Formation and accumulation of fibrosis in the liver is the common pathway that leads to evolutive liver disease. Precise staging of liver fibrosis is essential for patien...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Sebastiani G,Alberti A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C infection leads to increased hepatocyte apoptosis. Because engulfment of apoptotic bodies (ABs) by hepatic stellate cells (HSC) is profibrogenic, we compared the effects of ABs derived from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-negative vs HCV-infected (Con1+) Huh7 hepatoblastoma cells on fibrogenic and activati...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gieseler RK,Marquitan G,Schlattjan M,Sowa JP,Bechmann LP,Timm J,Roggendorf M,Gerken G,Friedman SL,Canbay A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No studies have reported the long-term effects of entecavir switching in patients with multidrug resistance who developed resistance after lamivudine/adefovir sequential therapy. We evaluated the efficacy of 96 weeks of entecavir therapy in patients with resistance to lamivudine/adefovir sequential therapy. In total, ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kwak MS,Choi JW,Lee JS,Kim KA,Suh JH,Cho YS,Won SY,Park BK,Lee CK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative serology for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is a new candidate marker for prediction of clinical outcome. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical significance of quantifying HBsAg in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. A total of 424 patients who tested positive for HBsAg a...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Togo S,Arai M,Tawada A,Chiba T,Kanda T,Fujiwara K,Imazeki F,Yokosuka O

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to further investigate the prevalence of infection and genotype of hepatitis E virus (HEV) among different species of animals, people whose works are related to pigs and the general population in the suburb of Beijing, China. Serum and faecal samples were collected from 10 animal species and ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Geng J,Wang L,Wang X,Fu H,Bu Q,Liu P,Zhu Y,Wang M,Sui Y,Zhuang H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the impact of sequential therapy with adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) and pegylated interferon alfa-2a (PEG-IFN) on virological (serum HBV-DNA) and serological (serum HBsAg) response in 20 consecutive HBeAg-negative patients. Patients received ADV for 20 weeks, then ADV and PEG-IFN for 4 weeks and lastly PEG-IFN fo...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Moucari R,Boyer N,Ripault MP,Castelnau C,Mackiewicz V,Dauvergne A,Valla D,Vidaud M,Chanoine MH,Marcellin P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among individuals with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, approximately 30% of patients show persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (PNALT). Individuals with PNALT have been historically excluded from antiviral treatment. However, some studies have reported sudden worsening of disease in patients with PN...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Derbala MF,Amer AM,Almohanadi M,John A,Amin A,John A,Sharma M,Alkaabi SR,Al Dweik NZ,Pasic F,Yaqoob R,Butt MT,Shebl FM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely low levels of serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA can be detected by COBAS TaqMan HCV test. To investigate whether the COBAS TaqMan HCV test is useful for measuring rapid virological response (RVR) and early virological response (EVR) to predict sustained virological response (SVR), we compared the virological...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kanda T,Imazeki F,Yonemitsu Y,Mikami S,Takada N,Nishino T,Takashi M,Tsubota A,Kato K,Sugiura N,Tawada A,Wu S,Tanaka T,Nakamoto S,Mikata R,Tada M,Chiba T,Kurihara T,Arai M,Fujiwara K,Kanai F,Yokosuka O

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a serious cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Coexistent infection with HDV tends to aggravate the course of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated liver disease. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HDV infection among patients chronically infected with HBV i...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Bahcecioglu IH,Aygun C,Gozel N,Poyrazoglu OK,Bulut Y,Yalniz M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary or secondary failure of adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) therapy of chronic hepatitis B is not infrequent. The reasons for suboptimal responses are not well defined. In HIV and hepatitis C virus infection, failure of antiviral drug therapy has been linked with low blood drug levels. We have studied 20 well-defined pat...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Deterding K,Naesens L,Buti M,Janssen H,Kirschner J,Guerrero A,Reijnders J,Neyts J,Zoulim F,Wedemeyer H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flares in chronic hepatitis B are often detrimental but sometimes lead to sustained immune control and disease remission. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of hepatitis flares which occur during and/or after cessation of nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) therapy, and to assess their outcomes. In a single c...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Zhang NP,Reijnders JG,Perquin M,Hansen BE,Janssen HL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triglycerides × glucose (TyG) index is a recently proposed surrogate marker of insulin resistance (IR), calculated from fasting plasma triglyceride and glucose concentrations. We tested the host and viral factors associated with Tyg and homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) scores, comparing their associations with ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Petta S,Di Marco V,Di Stefano R,Cabibi D,Cammà C,Marchesini G,Craxì A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroconversion from hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) to antibodies against HBsAg (anti-HBs) usually indicates resolution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Here, two HBV-infected patients with seroconversion to anti-HBs were found to be persistently positive for HBeAg and HBV DNA. Immunohistology of liver biopsi...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Zhang ZH,Li L,Zhao XP,Glebe D,Bremer CM,Zhang ZM,Tian YJ,Wang BJ,Yang Y,Gerlich W,Roggendorf M,Li X,Lu M,Yang DL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment and treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the community remains low. We evaluated factors associated with HCV specialist assessment and treatment in a cross-sectional study to evaluate treatment considerations in a sample of 634 participants with self-reported HCV infection in New South Wales, Australia....

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Grebely J,Bryant J,Hull P,Hopwood M,Lavis Y,Dore GJ,Treloar C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1996, a combined vaccine against both hepatitis A and B was licensed and commercialized and has been recommended for healthcare personnel in Belgium. This study compares the immunogenicity against hepatitis B virus (HBV) and safety of two vaccination schedules (0-1-12 months and 0-1-6 months) with this vaccine. Thi...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： De Schryver A,Verstrepen K,Vandersmissen L,Vandermeeren N,Vernaillen I,Vranckx R,Van Damme P,van Sprundel M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Better convenience and tolerability and sustained therapeutic concentrations might improve interferon (IFN) treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In an open-label, randomized study, controlled release free (chemically unmodified) recombinant human IFN-α(2b) in poly(ether-ester) microspheres (CR-rhIF...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Dzyublyk I,Yegorova T,Moroz L,Popovych O,Zaytsev I,Miroshnichenko V,Kromminga A,Wilkes MM,van Hoogdalem EJ,Humphries JE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV) hepatitis is a rare and potential life-threatening disease. The diagnosis of HSV hepatitis is hampered by its indifferent clinical presentation, which necessitates confirmatory laboratory data to identify HSV in the affected liver. However, liver biopsies are often contraindicated in the con...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Beersma MF,Verjans GM,Metselaar HJ,Osterhaus AD,Berrington WR,van Doornum GJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection appears to contribute to the development of insulin resistance (IR). Among the multiple determinants of IR, body mass index (BMI) is the most important. We investigated the contribution of HCV to BMI-associated IR using a transgenic mouse model expressing HCV core protein. Eight trans...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Delgado-Borrego A,Kamegaya Y,Jordan SH,Agrawal S,Valim C,Chung RT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver damage may result from multiple factors in HIV-infected patients. The availability of reliable noninvasive tools to measure liver fibrosis has permitted the screening of large patient populations. Cross-sectional study of all consecutive HIV outpatients who underwent examination by transient elastometry (FibroSc...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Blanco F,Barreiro P,Ryan P,Vispo E,Martín-Carbonero L,Tuma P,Labarga P,Medrano J,González-Lahoz J,Soriano V

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Elevated body mass index (BMI) in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) has been associated with reduced rates of sustained virological response (SVR). The aims of this study were to determine whether early viral kinetics (and subsequently SVR) are influenced by weight or BMI by measuring HCV RNA at week 4 using two PCR assays...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Pattullo V,Ravindran NC,Mazzulli T,Wong DK,Heathcote EJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients chronically infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV) experience symptoms like fatigue, dyspnea and reduced physical activity. However, in many patients, these symptoms are not proportional to the liver involvement and could resemble symptoms of chronic heart failure. To our knowledge, no study evaluated serum...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Antonelli A,Ferri C,Ferrari SM,Colaci M,Sebastiani M,Zignego AL,Ghiri E,Goglia F,Fallahi P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to investigate the features and clinical implications of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, basal core promoter (BCP) and precore (PC) mutations in hepatitis B-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HB-ACLF). Samples from 75 patients with HB-ACLF and without pre-existing liver cirrhosis and 3...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Ren X,Xu Z,Liu Y,Li X,Bai S,Ding N,Zhong Y,Wang L,Mao P,Zoulim F,Xu D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient elastometry (TE) could provide a more accurate evaluation of the frequency and risk factors of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than that based on biopsy. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of and factors associated with significant liver fibrosis in a large population of H...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Pineda JA,González J,Ortega E,Tural C,Macías J,Griffa L,Burgos A,Grafihco Study Team.

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is still an important issue worldwide. A distinct set of viruses encode proteins that enhance viral cap-independent translation initiation driven by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and suppress cap-dependent host translation. Unlike cytolytic picornaviruses, replication of HAV ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kanda T,Gauss-Müller V,Cordes S,Tamura R,Okitsu K,Shuang W,Nakamoto S,Fujiwara K,Imazeki F,Yokosuka O

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) in chronic hepatitis C patients display impaired function, although the details remain unclear. To investigate the hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein that has the most impact on DC function, we compared five recombinant proteins and seven HCV protein genes in modulating DC phenotype and function. Im...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Takaki A,Tatsukawa M,Iwasaki Y,Koike K,Noguchi Y,Shiraha H,Sakaguchi K,Nakayama E,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In chronic hepatitis C, transient elastography (TE) accurately identifies cirrhosis, but its ability to assess significant fibrosis (Metavir > or = F2) is variable. Constitutional and liver disease-related factors may influence TE and here we examined the variables associated with differences. Three hundred consecutiv...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Calvaruso V,Cammà C,Di Marco V,Maimone S,Bronte F,Enea M,Dardanoni V,Manousou P,Pleguezuelo M,Xirouchakis E,Attanasio M,Dusheiko G,Burroughs AK,Craxì A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are no dietary restrictions recommended in acute viral hepatitis (AVH), there is an altered food intake, probably because of perceptions and traditional nutritional practices, leading to sub-optimal intake and poorer clinical outcome. Therefore, we aimed to determine nutritional intake of AVH patients b...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Sathiaraj E,Chutke M,Mahurkar S,Nagaraja Rao P,Nageshwar Reddy D

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited data suggest that low T-helper cell levels may be observed in hepatitis C virus (HCV) monoinfected patients with decompensated liver disease. We sought to determine the distribution and relationship of T-helper cells (CD4) to liver fibrosis in HCV-monoinfected patients before and during pegylated interferon (P...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Rashkin S,Rouster S,Goodman ZD,Sherman KE

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients with liver failure have a poor prognosis, and no satisfactory biomarkers are available for diagnosis before the end-stage. We explored serum peptide profiling for diagnosis and prediction of progression to liver failure in HBV-infected patients. Serum samples (164) fro...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Han T,Liu H,Yu ZL,Li J,Wang L,Xiao SX,Li Y,Yu ML

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past decade, a specific hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype A strain has been prevalent among men having sex with men (MSM) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. At what point in time this strain was introduced in the MSM population, and why only this specific strain continues to be transmitted, remains unclear. Between...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： van Houdt R,Bruisten SM,Geskus RB,Bakker M,Wolthers KC,Prins M,Coutinho RA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We systematically reviewed the evidence for long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antiviral treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C. We performed a systematic literature search on the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of AVT in hepatitis C (1990-March 2007), and included health technolo...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Sroczynski G,Esteban E,Conrads-Frank A,Schwarzer R,Mühlberger N,Wright D,Zeuzem S,Siebert U

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, attention has been focussed on adiponectin and its changes in different types of chronic liver disease. Its relation to hepatic fibrosis and insulin resistance in post-hepatitis liver disease is not clear. The aim of this study was to clarify the adiponectin changes in genotype 4 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infe...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Derbala M,Rizk N,Al-Kaabi S,Amer A,Shebl F,Al Marri A,Aigha I,Alyaesi D,Mohamed H,Aman H,Basem N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00