LIVER FIBROSIS IN CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS C
Abstract:
Chronic hepatitis C is an inflammatory liver disease caused by infection with hepatitis Cvirus,
potentially evolving to cirrhosis, hepatocarcinoma, death. HCV infection in Romania is responsible for
64% of chronic hepatitis and 55.8% of liver cirrhosis. To establish the treatment needs should be
staging the disease, the liver fibrosis caused by viral action constitutes an important means of assessing
the severity of liver injury.
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