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A Brazilian university hospital position regarding transplantation criteria for...
Pierrotti, Lígia Camera; Litvinov, Nadia; Costa, Silvia Figueiredo; Azevedo, Luiz Sérgio Fonseca de; Strabelli, Tânia Mara Varejão; Campos, Silvia VidalHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was considered a contraindication for solid organ transplantation (SOT) in the past. However, HIV management has improved since highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became available in 1996, and the long-term survival of patients living with HIV has led many transplant programs to reevaluate their policies regarding the exclusion of patients with HIV infectio...
Peginterferon still has a place in the treatment of hepatitis C caused by genot...
Grando, Aline Vitali; Ferreira, Paulo Roberto Abrão; Pessôa, Mário Guimarães; Mazo, Daniel Ferraz de Campos; Brandão-Mello, Carlos EduardoDespite recent advances in therapy for chronic hepatitis C (CHC), the disease caused by genotype 3 virus (GEN3) is still considered a treatment challenge in certain patient subgroups. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the peginterferon (Peg-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) combination treatment for GEN3/CHC patients, and to evaluate sustained virological response (SVR) ...