A Tailored Approach to Promoting HCC Surveillance in Patients With Cirrhosis
There is a need for interventions to increase HCC surveillance in patients with cirrhosis due to a high proportion of late-stage detection.
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Is Liver Stiffness Seen in HIV Patients a Result of Hepatotoxic Drug Exposure?
Researchers aimed to estimate the prevalence of liver fibrosis and factors associated with it in people living with HIV compared with those in a control group.
Updates to the 2021 Adult Immunization Schedule
The ACIP emphasizes the importance of routine vaccinations during the pandemic to prevent diseases.
Abnormal Liver Function Tests Linked to Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection
By conducting prospective studies of liver function test abnormalities at baseline, a team of researchers hoped to elucidate the clinical relevance of liver injury in patients with COVID-19.
Maintaining Weight Loss in Patients With Obesity and NAFLD Often Challenging
Researchers in a real-world clinical practice study assessed the incidence of weight loss and weight regain in patients with NAFLD and overweight or obesity.
Neighborhood Deprivation Predicts Poorer Liver Transplant Outcomes in Children
A team of researchers sought to determine whether neighborhood deprivation affected outcomes in pediatric patients having undergone hepatic transplantation.
Bacterial Infections, Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Affect Course of Decompensated Cirrhosis
An international team of investigators conducted a multicenter, prospective, observational study to identify factors contributing to acute decompensation of cirrhosis.
USPSTF Recommends Hepatitis B Screening for At-Risk Teens, Adults
The USPSTF concludes that screening adults and adolescents at increased risk for hepatitis B virus infection has moderate net benefit.
HIV+ Transplant Donors: Expanding Opportunities to Save HIV Patient Lives
The national organ shortage has led researchers to criticallyre-evaluate organ sources that previously were considered toorisky for HIV patients.
Cirrhosis Cases Rising Among Women in North America
Researchers assessed the contemporary epidemiology of liver-related complications in women and projected cirrhosis disease burden to 2040.
American College of Physicians Updates Best Practice Advice for Chronic HCV
Based on guidelines issued by the World Health Organizations in 2018, the American College of Physicians has issued best practice advice that simplifies and improves treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus.
HIV, Hepatitis-B Drugs Proven to Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Evidence suggests that a class of drugs used to treat HIV and hepatitis B can reduce a patient’s risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
SHEA Updates Guidance for Health Care Staff With Hepatitis, HIV
In a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America white paper, updated recommendations are presented for health care personnel living with hepatitis and HIV.
Rising Costs of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis May Hinder Benefit and Decrease Access
Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to analyze national trends in drug payments and other associated costs of HIV PrEP treatment.
COVID-19 Infection May Initially Present as Acute Pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis may be a gastrointestinal manifestation of COVID-19, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile in Cirrhosis
A team of investigators sought to investigate the rate of resolution of Clostridioides difficile infection as well as safety associated with fecal microbiota transplantation in patients with liver cirrhosis.
CDC Guidance Issued for Testing, Management of HCP Exposed to Hep C
The CDC presented recommendations for testing and clinical management of health care personnel exposed to the hepatitis C virus.
Small Case Series Describes Clinical Course of Patients With COVID-19 and Chronic HBV
Researchers found that no patients with concomitant COVID-19 and hepatitis B virus infection progressed to severe or critically ill status during hospitalization, but many had abnormal liver function tests on admission.
Viral Exposure Signature Predicts Hepatocellular Carcinoma
A viral exposure signature can predict hepatocellular carcinoma risk before clinical diagnosis among at-risk patients.
Hepatits C Screening Recommended for Adults, Pregnant Women
Hepatitis C screening is recommended for all adults and for all pregnant women, except where the prevalence is below 0.1%.
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