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Filter by:Cross-sectional study of patients consulting in the emergency room of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), to assess the implementation of an "opt-out" screening program for HIV and HCV and prospective follow-up for 3 months of positive cases.
This study will evaluate two novel approaches to improve access to Hepatitis C virus (HCV) confirmatory viremia testing. Both approaches are "Harm reduction site-based (HRS)" because HCV viremia testing will be initiated and test results will be provided at the HRSs. These approaches will be compared to the current standard of care (control) in which anti-HCV-positive individuals must travel to a HCV treatment centre for HCV viremia testing. The investigators hypothesize that improving access to viremia testing improves linkage to care and reduces loss to follow-up among those who screen anti-HCV-positive.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease. The World Health Organization has reported that 170 million people are chronically infected with HCV globally. The highest prevalence of HCV infection worldwide exists in Egypt (15%); 90% of infection among Egyptian patients is due to genotype 4
Egypt has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world. In 2015, the prevalence of HCV RNA was found to be 7.0%.(1) The prevalence of HCV was studied in Rheumatoid arthritis in few studies(2,3), but to our knowledge, no previous work studied it in other rheumatologic diseases.
This study will assess the effect of treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) on cardiovascular disease risk. The study will enroll men and women who are infected with HCV and have underlying metabolic disease. All participants will receive a 12-week course of an HCV treatment (elbasvir/grazoprevir). Cardiovascular disease risk will be evaluated at baseline, week 4 on treatment, 12 weeks post-treatment, and 52 weeks post-treatment through noninvasive measurements of endothelial function, insulin resistance, liver fibrosis and steatosis, and circulating blood biomarkers.
The main goals of the CARE-C study are to demonstrate the effectiveness of HCV models of care in a rural state (A) to overcome barriers to HCV treatment uptake, (B) to increase retention in care, and (C) to broaden access to care. To achieve these goals the following two systems interventions will be separately implemented: (1) Implementation of the Psychosocial Readiness Evaluation and Preparation for hepatitis C treatment (PREP-C) and related standard of care best practice PREP-C related interventions facilitated by a social worker-patient navigator team, and (2) implementation of a modified ECHO model (with one patient visit at specialty center to include PREP-C and fibrosis assessment in contrast to standard ECHO model). To test the effectiveness of our two systems interventions 600 patients will be equally distributed into three study arms representing 3 care models: Arm 1: Current Care Model (management with current interdisciplinary team); Arm 2: PREP-C Model (management with expanded interdisciplinary team (social worker, patient navigator, PREP-C); and Arm 3: Modified ECHO Model (management with expanded team in collaboration with community providers). An additional Arm 4 was started January 2021 to follow subjects experience with HCV management and treatment via telemedicine.
The project will evaluate cost and treatment outcomes of a simplified hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing, treatment and care model integrated with HIV testing and treatment among key affected populations including people who inject drugs (PWID) in Myanmar.
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a daily, fixed-dose, 8-week course combination of Elbasvir/Grazoprevir in treatment-naïve, non-cirrhotic patients who are mono-infected with hepatitis C, genotype 4.
This is a multicenter, non-comparative, observational study that will recruit women with singleton pregnancy and chronic HCV infection to determine the natural history of chronic HCV in pregnancy and the rate of vertical transmission to their infants. All participants will be offered curative therapy with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (Epclusa ®) after delivery and the cessation of breastfeeding. Subjects may be enrolled at any time after conception up through 36 weeks gestation. The management of subjects in pregnancy will be in accordance with ACOG guidelines and individual clinical judgment, however testing will include, but not be limited to, testing for HCV infection, HIV infection, HBV infection, HSV infection, group B Streptococcal colonization, HCV genotype, HCV viral load, as well as assessment of hepatic and renal function. Subjects will be followed on a schedule that is determined by their obstetric care providers throughout their pregnancy. Following delivery, infants will be evaluated at 12, 24 and 48 weeks of age, with testing for HCV RNA to be obtained at each evaluation. Vertical transmission is defined as two positive HCV RNA PCR tests, at least one before the 48 week infant visit, and again at the 12-month follow-up infant visit.
The investigators assessed non-organ-specific antibodies before and 24 weeks after the end of therapy with direct-acting antivirals, in order to better clarify the clinical relevance of these antibodies in terms of treatment response and prognostic value. To achieve this goal patients with hepatitis C virus related advanced liver disease, with detectable circulating autoantibodies on at least two determinations before treatment, were enrolled.