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Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Kidney Transplant Patients: Current Treatment Options.
Experimental and Clinical Transplantation 2017 December
Hepatitis C virus infection is highly prevalent among kidney transplant recipients, occurring consequently to their previous treatment with hemodialysis. Hepatitis C virus infection has been associated with lower graft and patient survival compared with that shown in patients without infection. The lower survival has been associated with the posttransplant progression of liver disease and increased risk for development of extrahepatic complications. The choice of immunosuppressive drugs could significantly affect the course of the infection with an accelerated viral replication after kidney transplant. Eradicating hepatitis C virus infection with antiviral treatment is imperative to increasing graft and patient survival after transplant. Antiviral treatment options include standard interferon-based therapy and new directacting antiviral agents. Interferon-based treatment is rarely used in kidney transplant recipients because it has been associated with high risk of interferoninduced acute graft rejection. Several novel studies have shown that the new direct-acting antiviral agents are highly efficacious for treatment of hepatitis C infection in kidney transplant patients.
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