Articles Tagged With: hepatitis
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Adult Immunizations — 2017 Changes
Significant changes in recommendations for adult immunization for 2017 have been made or influenza, meningococcal infection, human papillomavirus, and hepatitis B.
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is the most common form of viral hepatitis worldwide and often is asymptomatic. But it is commonly associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome and Guillain-Barré variants.
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Hepatitis C Infection for Primary Care Providers
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis. Most people are asymptomatic, but for the majority of patients who become infected with hepatitis C, it becomes a long-term, chronic infection. The best way to prevent hepatitis C is by avoiding behaviors that can spread the disease, especially injection drug use, as there is no vaccine for HCV. With the forefront of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agents, people can now be cured from HCV infection.
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Hepatitis C Treatment: Issues for the Emergency Physician
This issue is written to provide you with the knowledge to be able to ask and educate patients with hepatitis C about the highly effective treatment available for most all infected patients.
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Warning: Reactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection During Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Prior to initiation of hepatitis C virus treatment with direct-acting antivirals, patients should be screened for hepatitis B virus coinfection. Those who are hepatitis B virus-infected should receive ongoing monitoring for flares and reactivation of hepatitis B.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
C. diff. Risk in Veteran’s Long-term Care; Survival in Acute Liver Failure
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Acute Hepatitis in the Emergency Department
MONOGRAPH: Viral and drug-induced hepatitis are the most common causes of acute liver failure in adults.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Diagnostic Puzzle? Solved by The New York Times; Glucometers as Culprit; Shorter Isolation Times for TB
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Next-generation Sequencing to Diagnose Cryptic Hep B and E
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: Sera from patients with hepatitis of unknown etiology were studied using next-generation sequencing.
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NC nurses examining policy on assisting in executions
Physician groups' opposition to doctors participating in death penalty executions has put a moratorium on prisoner executions in North Carolina for nearly a year, and now a group of nurses are following the lead of their state's physician licensing board.