All the news Showing 10 of 76 articles.Get an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Liver transplants and COVID-19 Keith Alcorn / 28 April 2020 Liver specialists in New York report a high frequency of severe COVID-19 cases in organ transplant recipients who became infected with SARS-CoV-2, while Italian specialists report that 15 of 17 patients who underwent ... Liver specialists offer guidance on COVID-19 risks in liver patients Keith Alcorn / 25 March 2020 The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) has issued preliminary guidance for liver specialists on managing COVID-19 in patients with liver disease, based on data published up to late March. COVID-19 ... Pre- and post-transplant antiviral treatment prevents hepatitis C transmission in all organ recipients, Canadian study finds Keith Alcorn / 14 November 2019 Adding a cholesterol-lowering drug to direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) prevented hepatitis C infection in all recipients of organ transplants from donors with hepatitis C, Jordan Feld, Research Director of the Toronto Centre for ... Organs ‘too risky’ to donate may be safer than we think. We crunched the numbers and here’s what we found The Conversation / 17 October 2019 Penn team eradicates Hepatitis C in patients after heart transplants from infected donors Manual Items / 26 February 2019 Many Patients Are Unwilling to Accept Transplantation of an HCV-Positive Organ Infectious Disease Advisor / 06 February 2019 Hundreds of Britons who buy KIDNEYS on the black market from overseas traffickers charging £30,000 in a bid to avoid NHS waiting lists are coming back with deadly diseases such as HIV and hepatitis Daily Mail / 21 January 2019 The Tricky Ethics of Transplants for Addicts The Atlantic / 21 January 2019 Need for liver transplants due to hepatitis C drops in United Kingdom Keith Alcorn / 22 October 2018 Registrations for liver transplants due to complications of hepatitis C infection in the United Kingdom fell sharply between 2013 and 2016, coinciding with the gradual increase in availability of direct-acting antiviral treatment, researchers ... What support do people with liver cirrhosis and their families need? Keith Alcorn / 09 October 2018 People with liver cirrhosis and their families need more information about their condition and prognosis and greater access to palliative care, a systematic review of studies on the needs of people with cirrhosis ... ← Prev12345...8Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive