Viral Hepatitis

About this book

A concise clinical guide to hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free direct-acting antivirals. Eleven chapters cover global epidemiology, laboratory and molecular diagnosis with resistance testing, pre-treatment evaluation and current therapy for treatment-naive patients. Later chapters address special situations: renal failure, HBV coinfection, people who inject drugs and prisoners, HIV coinfection, failure of direct-acting antiviral therapy, decompensated cirrhosis and transplantation, extrahepatic manifestations and acute hepatitis C. It is written for specialists and for generalists who will screen and treat patients.