Hepatitis C-related liver cirrhosis - strategies for the prevention of hepatic decompensation, hepatocarcinogenesis, and mortality

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2876-2887

  Toshikuni, Nobuyuki ^a   Arisawa, Tomiyasu ^a   Tsutsumi, Mikihiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct acting antiviral agents; Hepatic decompensation; Hepatitis C virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Interferon; Liver cirrhosis; Mortality; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BOCEPREVIR; DELEOBUVIR; FALDAPREVIR; INTERFERON; MERICITABINE; PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; SIMEPREVIR; STATIN (PROTEIN); TELAPREVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SUPPLEMENTATION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMPLICATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; VIROLOGY;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84896479062     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i11.2876     Document Type: Article

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