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Hepatitis C Main Forums => Hepatitis C Research News & Studies => Topic started by: Hep Editors on April 03, 2018, 11:15:48 am
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People without hepatitis C virus who need a kidney transplant may be able to receive one from a donor with HCV and then promptly receive curative treatment for the virus, Reuters Health reports. A recent small study found that direct-acting antiviral treatment was successful in this context and was not associated with any major treatment-related negative safety outcomes.
Publishing their findings in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers studied 10 HCV-negative individuals on the kidney transplant list. They had a median age of 71, 20 percent were women and 80 percent were white. They each received one transplanted kidney from 10 donors. The donors had a median age of 30, 50 percent were women and all were white. The organ recipients waited for a median of one month between entering the study and receiving a kidney transplant.
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