Fulminant Hepatic Failure
"Association Between Fulminant Hepatic Failure and a Strain of GBV Virus C."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 27th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Lancet, "Background: The GB virus C (GBV-C) and the hepatitis G virus (HGV) have been detected in patients with acute indeterminant hepatitis and post-transfusion hepatitis. However, the role of the new hepatitis viruses in the aetiology of fulminant hepatitis is little understood. We investigated the presence of GBV-C/HGV in patients with fulminant hepatic failure. Methods: Serum samples from 22 German patients with fulminant hepatic failure and 106 symptom-free blood donors (controls) were studied for presence of GBV-C RNA by seminested reverse transcriptase PCR. Primer sequences were derived from the...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1997-01-27)
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