Title: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV coinfection.
Abstract: Hepatitis C virus (HCV)/HIV coinfection is a burgeoning epidemic that received considerable attention at the 12th World AIDS Conference. Risk factors, transmission, coinfection and disease progression, treatment options, and the side effects of hepatitis B virus (HBV)/HCV coinfection are discussed. Among the findings are that HCV appears to help HIV progress faster, that highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may even contribute to more rapid HCV infection of coinfected patients, and that an undetectable viral load does not influence HCV replication in HCV/HIV coinfection. Further, HAART appears to not have long-term beneficial effects on HCV viremia. Chronic active hepatitis and cirrhosis are the most relevant complications of long-term HIV survivors with HCV/HIV coinfection, a condition that will be more prevalent as patients survive longer.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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