2 Minute Medicine Rewind May 6, 2019
Risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay couples with the HIV-positive partner taking suppressive antiretroviral therapy (PARTNER): ...
Tag: hepatitis C
HCV-positive heart and lung transplant likely safe with post-transplant sofosbuvir-velatasivir treatment
1. HCV-naive patients in need of heart or lung transplants who received organs from HCV-positive donors and were treated with ...
Transplantation followed by antiviral therapy cured hepatitis C in 100 percent of patients receiving kidneys from infected donors
1. All 20 patients included in the study were cured of HCV following antiviral therapy. 2. Similar eGFR scores were ...
Using HCV-infected kidneys greatly reduces wait time for transplantation and improves survival for patients with HCV
1. Use of HCV-infected kidneys increased patients’ quality-adjusted life expectancy. 2. Lower costs were associated with HCV-infected kidneys compared to ...
Screening insufficient for newborns exposed to hepatitis C virus
1. In this retrospective study, only a fraction of infants receiving well-child care at the study institution were screened for ...
HCV-infected kidney donors could save lives
1. No HCV infection was detected in patients receiving HCV-infected kidneys 12 weeks following treatment. 2. No antiviral treatment-related complications ...
Shorter duration of glecaprevir-pibrentasvir effective against hepatitis C virus: The ENDURANCE trials
1. Both 8 and 12-week regimens of glecaprevir-pibrentasvir were highly efficacious in producing sustained virologic response in patients infected with ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind October 16, 2017
Phase 2 Placebo-Controlled Trial of Two Vaccines to Prevent Ebola in Liberia In 2014, two candidate Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccines ...
HCV treatment administered by nonspecialist providers as safe and effective as that provided by specialists
1. HCV treatment by nurse practitioners and primary care physicians with compact didactic training was found to be equally as ...
Next-generation metagenomics sequencing may sleuth out hard-to-find viruses in the blood
1. Next-generation metagenomics detected Human Hepegivirus-1 (HhpgV-1) in a cohort of patients who inject drugs. 2. The clinical significance of detecting ...