Abstract: Hepatitis C virus ( HCV) is an important human pathogen that causes chronic viral hepatitis worldwide. HCV infection, often persistent and asymptomatic, could lead to liver fibrosis /cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The interferon /ribavirin therapy has been widely used for treating chronic h...
Abstract: It has been nearly 20 years from the discovery of hepatitis C virus ( HCV) and clinical diagnosis of hepatitis C to antiviral therapy with interferon, and significant progress has been made. Substantial changes have taken place in both the concept and strategy for antiviral treatment of hepatitis C,...
Abstract: Acute hepatitis C is an acute infectious disease caused by hepatitis C virus. Accurate diagnosis and proper treatment are very important for preventing the progression of this disease. Recent research advances in acute hepatitis C, including the epidemiological and clinical features, diagnosis, and ...
Abstract: The current standard treatment for hepatitis C virus ( HCV) infection is a combination of pegylated interferon ( PEG- IFN) and ribavirin. However, it remains incurable in some patients. In recent years, direct acting antiviral agents ( DAAs) that target specific HCV enzymes in HCV life cycle have be...
Objective To investigate the association between serum lipid levels and antiviral treatment outcome in chronic hepatitis C ( CHC) patients. Methods A total of 171 treatment-naive CHC patients were included in the present retrospective study and received a standard therapy of pegylated interferon ( P...
Abstract: Objective To analyze the effect of hepatitis C virus ( HCV) on disease progression in patients with human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) /HCV coinfection. Methods Twenty- nine patients with HIV /HCV coinfection and 20 patients with HIV infection alone, who visited Beijing YouAn hospital for follow- u...
Abstract: Objective To investigate the epidemiological features and disease spectrum of inpatients with hepatitis C in recent years and to provide reference for the control of hepatitis C. Methods A retrospective study of demography, epidemiology, and laboratory examination was performed in 110 hospitalized p...
Abstract: Objective To investigate the changes in NK cells and regulatory T ( Treg) cells among patients with refractory chronic hepatitis C ( CHC) during antiviral therapy and to analyze antiviral effect-related immunological factors. Methods A total of 41 patients with refractory CHC ( 30 treatment- naive p...
Abstract: Objective To investigate the association between interleukin- 28B ( IL- 28B) polymorphisms and susceptibility to hepatitis C among the Han population in Jiangsu Province, China. Methods A case- control study was conducted in 88 hepatitis C patients who visited the Second Hospital of Nanjing in 2011 ...
Abstract: Objective To construct the lentiviral vector encoding CLEC4M and prepare K- 562 cells with stable overexpression of CLEC4M. Methods The gene sequence of normal CLEC4M was cloned by reverse transcription PCR and then inserted into GV166 vector to construct GV166- CLEC4M lentiviral expression vector, ...
Abstract: Objective To evaluate the changes in serum levels of Th1 /Th2 cytokines in pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV) infection after telbivudine treatment and to investigate the immune mechanism by which telbivudine blocks the mother- to- infant transmission of HBV. Methods Fifty- four HB...
Abstract: Objective To investigate the influential factors and clinical significance of low- level hepatitis B virus ( HBV) DNA replication and specific antibody expression in patients with HBV- related liver failure. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on the medical records of 391 patients with H...
Abstract: Objective To study the relationship between hepatocarcinogenesis and the mutation in X gene among patients with chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV) infection, such as chronic hepatitis B ( CHB) , liver cirrhosis ( LC) and primary liver cancer ( PLC) . Methods The serum samples from 89 patients with chr...
Abstract: Objective To observe and analyze the efficacy of magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate in the treatment of hepatitis E with severe jaundice. Methods Seventy- eight cases of hepatitis E with severe jaundice admitted from January 2009 to December 2012 were equally divided into treatment group ( n = 39) and con...
Objective To investigate the risk factors for early rebleeding from esophageal and gastric varices ( EGV) in patients with liver cirrhosis. Methods A total of 432 patients with liver cirrhosis who were admitted to Ningxia Medical University from January 2006 to December 2009 were included in the stu...
Abstract: Objective To analyze the diagnostic values of ultrasonography and computed tomography ( CT) for gallbladder adenomyomatosis.Methods The ultrasound and CT findings of 28 cases of pathologically confirmed gallbladder adenomyomatosis in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. The diagnostic values ...
Abstract: Objective To study the changes in intestinal permeability in patients with gallstones of different distribution and properties and to investigate the role of intestinal barrier function in gallstone formation. Methods A total of 108 patients with gallstones in our hospital in need of operation from ...
Abstract: Objective To investigate the early changes in hemorheological parameters and thromboxane A2 ( TXA2) and prostacyclin ( PGI2) levels among patients with severe acute pancreatitis ( SAP) . Methods Thirty-two SAP patients hospitalized from January 2012 to September 2013 were selected as SAP group; 30 h...
Objective To compare the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic hepatectomy ( LH) versus open hepatectomy ( OH) for liver cancer patients with cirrhosis. Methods From September 2010 to June 2012, 78 liver cancer patients with cirrhosis hospitalized in Renmin Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University w...
Objective To analyze the changes in platelet parameters and their influential factors in cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC) . Methods The clinical data of 602 cirrhotic patients with HCC who were admitted to the First Hospital of Jilin University from January 2011 to December 20...
Objective To investigate the pathogenesis, diagnostic keys, and treatment of hepatogenous diarrhea. Methods Sixty- two patients with hepatogenous diarrhea were assigned to three levels of treatment. Patients given level- one treatment received live combined Clostridium butyricum and Bifidobacterium ...
Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate in the treatment of liver injury among patients with obstructive jaundice after percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage ( PTCD) . Methods Sixty- two obstructive jaundice patients with liver injury after PTCD w...
Abstract: Hepatitis B virus ( HBV) is a hepatotropic DNA virus; HBV DNA and special P protein are covered by capsid proteins to form core particles, which are then covered by lipoprotein to form complete virus particles. Hepatitis C virus ( HCV) , which belongs to the Flaviviridae family, is a single- strande...
Abstract: Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world. The mortality of patients with liver cancer remains high even with increasing progress in therapies. Early diagnosis is helpful for prolonging the survival of patients, so new biomarkers need to be explored for timely diagnosis an...