Therapy (HCV)

Pre-Transplant Viral Load Is Factor For Cholestasis After Surgery

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 5th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- Patients with livers containing higher levels of hepatitis C virus prior to liver transplant are more likely to be plagued by faulty liver bile flow, or cholestasis, following surgery.

Patients with high levels of virus should receive appropriate antiviral treatments prior to surgery, researchers recommended in the February 2001 issue of Liver Transplatation.

Cholestasis results when bile flow in the liver stops, causing the bile ducts to become plugged and essentially act like a dam to prevent important biochemical changes from taking place.

At Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit,...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2001-03-05)

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