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Hepatitis C - A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (Paperback)
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Hepatitis C - A Complete Guide for Patients and Families (Paperback)
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
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The liver is the body's workhorse. It makes proteins and bile,
processes fats, and detoxifies drugs and alcohol. The liver is a
resilient organ, but it is susceptible to damage from a number of
sources, including viral infections. Such infections cause
inflammation of the liver, called hepatitis. This book is a
comprehensive guide to hepatitis C, which affects about 3 percent
of the world's population-3 to 4 million people in the United
States alone. Some people with acute hepatitis C infection will be
cured without any treatment, but when hepatitis C becomes chronic
it may cause cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death. Hepatitis C is
transmitted from an infected person to an uninfected person by
sharing drug-injecting equipment, snorting cocaine, having sex, or
getting a blood transfusion or organ transplant. It can be spread
by getting a tattoo with unsterile equipment. In rare cases, women
with hepatitis C transmit the virus to their infants.
World-renowned gastroenterologist and liver specialist Dr Paul J
Thuluvath provides detailed information about the disease and its
diagnosis and management, including dramatically improved
treatments that have recently emerged. Dr Thuluvath answers common
and uncommon questions about hepatitis C and liver disease,
including: How is hepatitis C spread? Who should be tested-and what
tests diagnose hepatitis C and other liver diseases? What are the
symptoms of acute liver disease? What are the symptoms and
complications of chronic liver disease? What are the complications
of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver)? How does hepatitis C affect
other organs in the body? What treatment options are available, and
what side effects might they have? How is early liver cancer
diagnosed and treated? When is liver transplantation needed, and
how does it work? Dr Thuluvath provides the latest information on
new interferon-free regimens, which have shown a cure rate of more
than 90 per cent in people with specific genotypes-and which avoid
the distressing side effects of interferon therapy. He discusses
hepatitis C in children as well as complementary and alternative
medicine. Published while revolutionary changes are taking place in
the treatment of hepatitis C, this authoritative guide will become
the preferred reference for people with hepatitis C and their
families.
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