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VIDEO: How to recognize and treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
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VIDEO: Myths and truths of gluten-free diets
PHILADELPHIA – Do you have patients with undiagnosed celiac disease or legitimate gluten sensitivity, or are they self-diagnosing with the need to...
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VIDEO: Management of difficult-to-treat IBD cases
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Lessons from the Indiana HIV/HCV outbreak
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Proportion of HCV patients in U.S. with cirrhosis climbing
Key clinical point: Despite a national decline in the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection, the prevalence of cirrhosis among HCV-infected...
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VIDEO: U.S. hepatitis C treatment capacity falls short of need
Despite new hepatitis C treatment options, the health care system’s capacity to treat patients still falls far short of what’s needed.
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AASLD: Pilot study shows value of response-guided therapy for HCV GT1b
Response-guided therapy using all-oral triple direct-acting antiviral therapy appears useful for shortening the duration of treatment in...
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Elevated liver cancer risk after HCV cure may justify surveillance
Sustained virologic response in patients with well controlled hepatic C virus infection does not protect select subgroups of this cohort from...
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Transplant waiting-list registrations dropped after direct acting–antiviral approval
The number of new waiting-list registrations for liver transplantation among patients with hepatitis C virus declined significantly after the...
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VIDEO: 12-week HCV retreatment effective if short course fails
Patients who fail short-course treatment for hepatitis C and show high levels of resistance to an antiviral drug may still respond to standard 12-...