Transplantation (Liver)

Pre-Transplant HCV Titers Predict Poor Outcome

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 21st, 1998

Pretransplant hepatitis C virus titers are predictive of poor survival among liver recipients who are infected with hepatitis C.

Researchers from a prominent transplantation database found that liver recipients who had hepatitis C virus (HCV) titers of less than 1x10⁶ vEq/mL experienced a significantly higher five-year survival than those with titer values of greater than 1x10⁶.

"This study suggests that the outcome of recurrent HCV infection can, at least in part, be predicted by pretransplantation levels of HCV RNA," Michael Charlton and colleagues wrote ("Predictors of Patient and Graft Survival Following Liver...

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