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Friday, 26 April 2019

7th Internatioal Conference on Hepatology


Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a devastating liver disease caused by Hepatitis C virus (HCV) which causes acute and chronic infection. In some cases, chronic hepatitis often leads to liver cancer or cirrhosis. Chronic Hepatitis causes liver damage and fibrosis, hepatomegaly, hepatocellular carcinoma.

HCV is a bloodborne virus transmitted due to intravenous drug use, unsterilized medical equipment, from mother to baby during birth, sexual contact with the infected person. HCV virus has no vaccine; therefore prevention of virus prevalence is recommended.




Symptoms of Hepatitis C:

Mild-to-severe fever
Fatigue
Abdominal pain
Loss of appetite
Nausea
Vomiting
Joint pain
Dark urine
Clay-colored stool
Yellowing of the skin (jaundice)





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