Hepatitis C

cirrhosis, hepatitis B or C, heavy alcohol use, obesity, diabetes, hereditary conditions such as hemochromatosis and intake of aflatoxin-contaminated food (arun j). Cirrhosis is the primary factor risk for developing HCC. Based on (), 90-95% of people who develop HCC have underlying cirrhosis. The cirrhosis is a condition where the normal liver tissue are replaced by scar tissue after being damage causing the remaining liver tissue to lose its normal arrangement. Alcoholism, viral hepatitis B or…

This article utilizes a purposive sampling method to explored Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) positive patients receiving antiviral therapy treatment from liver clinics from two tertiary hospitals located in Sidney, Australia. Several factors were explored including the influences that triggered the patient to start receiving antiviral treatment, ability to adhere to the treatment plan, and how successful treatment completion was achieved. The authors believe that as new CHC treatments become…

Liver cirrhosis is caused from anything that ruins the liver. You can not fix it once the liver is destroyed, it stays that way . The three most common causes of liver damage are fatty foods, too much alcohol consumption and hepatitis C. There are several other causes stated on Web M.D. that are not as common. These include, reaction to certain medications, lengthy exposure to environmental causes and lastly, infection. If the liver doesn't work properly it does put a strain on the…

virus infection in the United States is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), an infectious disease that causes liver inflammation. There are five types of hepatitis, hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, hepatitis C virus being the most serious of the four. HCV is not a sexually transmitted disease; it is contracted through direct contact to infected blood, and from contaminated medical supply. According to the World Health Organization, hepatitis C is most prevalent in Central and East Asia, and…

Hepatitis generally refers to an inflammation of the liver caused by alcohol, drugs, chemicals and autoimmune conditions, over half of cases worldwide being caused by viruses. Of the hepatitis viruses, hepatitis A is the most common and most treatable; other forms of viral hepatitis include B, C, D, E and possibly F and G. The first description of “epidemic jaundice” is attributed to Hippocrates and there are reports of outbreaks throughout history. The hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a small…

Cirrhosis is a late stage of progressive hepatic fibrosis which is a consequence of almost all chronic liver diseases; the main causes of liver cirrhosis are chronic viral infections (B, C or B+D), alcoholic etiologies and lately non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (1). Around 50% of patients with cirrhosis have esophageal varices (EV), and one-third of all patients with varices will have variceal hemorrhage, representing an incidence of 5% and 15% in patients with small and large…

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an inflammatory disorder of the liver, which was described for the first time in the 1950s by Jan G. Waldenström (Mieli-Vergani & Vergani, 2009). The exact cause of AIH is unknown (Czaja & Freese, 2002) and because of ambiguity in diagnosing the disease the exact incidence of AIH is difficult to quantify, but reported incidences range from one in 200,000 in the general population in the United States to twenty in 100,000 females in Spain (Mieli-Vergani & Vergani,…

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. There are five forms recognized they are A, B, C, D, and E. Some forms of hepatitis are sudden and brief and others can be chronic (Hepatitis). Viral hepatitis is the leading cause of liver disease in the United States and the world (Jenkins). Hepatitis is usually caused by a viral infection, but there can be other causes these include autoimmune hepatitis and hepatitis that occurs as a secondary result of medications, drugs, toxins, and alcohol.…

Viral hepatitis is not a sufficient priority in the United States killing more than 20,000 people every year. I currently work as a Public Health nurse and have observed that hepatitis is a disease that is spoken of rarely but is a growing public health problem. There are outreach events for awareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and sexually transmitted diseases but hepatitis has in a sense fallen between the cracks. In this paper, I intend to discuss the etiology and pathophysiology of…

Disorder Symptoms Causes Effects Treatment Cirrhosis The most common symptoms of Cirrhosis are; fatigue, itchy skin, darkened skin due to itching and scratching, dry eyes and mouth. Victims may also contract a condition known as jaundice, in which the skin and the whites of the eyes turn to yellow. The exact cause/causes of Cirrhosis are unknown. Researchers believe that it may be an autoimmune disease (when the immune system attacks and…