Acute Liver Failure and Fever of Unknown Origin

Autor: Kenneth M. Wener, J Morgan Freiman, Daniel P McQuillen, Terry A Marryshow

Publikováno v: Open Forum Infectious Diseases

We describe a case of acute liver failure in a woman in whom a diagnosis was initially unable to be established. The patient rapidly deteriorated, requiring admission to the intensive care unit, and was placed under consideration for liver transplant

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8391089

Deriving the optimal limit of detection for an HCV point-of-care test for viraemic infection: Analysis of a global dataset

Autor: Philippa Easterbrook, George Kamkamidze, Reham Soliman, Francesco Marinucci, Gamal Shiha, C. Robert Horsburgh, Claudia M. Denkinger, Kihn V. Nguyen, Laura F. White, Anne Loarec, Sunil S. Solomon, Richard Njouom, Tengiz Tsertsvadze, Mel Krajden, J. Morgan Freiman, Benjamin P. Linas, Jianing Wang

Publikováno v: J Hepatol

Affordable point-of-care tests for hepatitis C (HCV) viraemia are needed to improve access to treatment in low- and middle-income countries. Our aims were to determine the target limit of detection (LOD) necessary to diagnose the majority of people w

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30797050

HCV Core Antigen Testing for Diagnosis of HCV Infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Autor: Stefano Ongarello, Jennifer Cohn, Trang M. Tran, Laura F. White, Claudia M. Denkinger, Philippa Easterbrook, Samuel G Schumacher, J. Morgan Freiman, Benjamin P. Linas

Background Diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection requires both a positive HCV antibody screen and confirmatory nucleic acid testing (NAT). Testing for hepatitis C virus core antigen (HCVcAg) is a potential alternative to NAT. Purpose

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Current practices of screening for incident hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-infected, HCV-uninfected individuals in primary care

Autor: E. Turner Overton, Elvin Geng, Kenneth H. Mayer, Christopher B. Hurt, Lynn E. Taylor, Benjamin P. Linas, J. Morgan Freiman, Laura F. White, Mari M. Kitahata, Wei Huang, Benigno Rodriguez, Richard D. Moore, Edward R. Cachay

Publikováno v: Freiman, JM; Huang, W; White, LF; Geng, EH; Hurt, CB; Taylor, LE; et al.(2014). Current practices of screening for incident hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-infected, HCV-uninfected individuals in primary care. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 59(12), 1686-1693. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu698. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6b80d1s5

(See the Major Article by Vanhommerig et al on pages 1678–85, and the Editorial Commentary by Reiberger on pages 1694–5.) Hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

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