Representações sociais da qualidade de vida no HIV/AIDS: o papel do tempo de diagnóstico [Social representations of quality of life in HIV/AIDS: the role of time since diagnosis]... by Rodrigo Leite Hipolito, Denize Cristina de Oliveira, Antônio Marcos Tosoli Gomes, Tadeu Lessa da Costa

“…Individuals seropositive for human immunodeficiencyvirus (HIV) and enrolled in the STD/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Program in a town in Rio de Janeiro State were subject to semistructuredinterviews between May 2013 and January 2014 and stratified by time since diagnosis. …”
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GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotype increase the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: evidence based on 46 studies by Shanli Li, Feng Xue, Yi Zheng, Pengtao Yang, Shuai Lin, Yujiao Deng, Peng Xu, Linghui Zhou, Qian Hao, Zhen Zhai, Ying Wu, Zhijun Dai, Shu Chen

“…Plenty of internal and extrinsic factors have been proven to be related to HCC, such as gene mutation, viral hepatitis, and Nitrosamines. Though previous studies demonstrated that glutathione S-transferase (GST) genotypes are associated with HCC, the conclusions are inconsistent. …”
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Hepatitis of unknown etiology in children in Brazil: A new challenge or the usual scenario ? by Rodolfo Castro, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Valdilea G. Veloso, Hugo Perazzo

“…The top ICD-10 codes were B19.9 [unspecified viral hepatitis without hepatic coma; 39.9% (n = 612)], K72.9 [hepatic failure, unspecified; 29.8% (n = 457)], and K72.0 [hepatic failure, not elsewhere classified; 14.5% (n = 223)]. …”
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Hepatic sarcoidosis with symptomatic portal hypertension: A report of 12 cases with review of the literature by Maxime Fauter, Geoffrey Rossi, Ayoub Drissi-Bakhkhat, Marianne Latournerie, Mathieu Gerfaud-Valentin, Isabelle Durieu, Isabelle Durieu, Yvan Jamilloux, Yvan Jamilloux, François Bailly, Matthieu Mahevas, Pascal Sève, Pascal Sève, Pascal Sève

“…Seven patients presented with hepatic comorbidities: metabolic syndrome, chronic alcoholism or chronic viral hepatitis. Apart from hepatic involvement, mediastino-pulmonary involvement was the most common followed by osteoarticular and skin. …”
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THE STATE OF CELL MEDIATED IMMUNITY AMONG HEPATITIS B SURFACE ,ANTGENI CARRIERS IN IRAN, by A. MASSOUD

“…It is s possible that specific failure of CMI allows the hepatitis B virus to remain harmless in carriers a Hepatitis B surface-antigen (HE Ag); Hepatitis Bs coreantigen (HE Ag) and Hepatitis Be-antigen (HE Ag), c e have been established as indicating ineffectivity in viral hepatitis B ({I, 6 , 20, 28)."nA number of infected individuals also developed clini cal evidence of disease and HE Ag may s the serum of some subjects for a long rema•ln present I•n time (18). …”
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Estimating the generation interval and inferring the latent period of COVID-19 from the contact tracing data by Shi Zhao, Biao Tang, Salihu S Musa, Shujuan Ma, Jiayue Zhang, Minyan Zeng, Qingping Yun, Wei Guo, Yixiang Zheng, Zuyao Yang, Zhihang Peng, Marc KC Chong, Mohammad Javanbakht, Daihai He, Maggie H. Wang

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Prevalence of hepatitis B and C viral infections in hospitalized patients with increased liver enzyme levels and with no known history of hepatic disease by Irene Cacciola, Concetta Pitrone, Maria Stella Franzè, Carmelo Mazzeo, Marco Muscianisi, Serena Porcari, Giusy Pintabona, Carmela Morace, Giorgio Basile, Eugenio Cucinotta, Teresa Pollicino, Giovanni Raimondo

“…Introduction and objectives: Identification of asymptomatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers is fundamental to reach the World Health Organization objective to eradicate viral hepatitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the HBV and HCV prevalence among patients hospitalized for a non-liver-related disease but showing increased liver enzyme values. …”
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Hepatitis B Core-Related Antigen is a Biomarker for off-Treatment Relapse After Long-Term Nucleos(t)ide Analog Therapy in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B by Liao G, Ding X, Xia M, Wu Y, Chen H, Fan R, Zhang X, Cai S, Peng J

“…Guichan Liao,1,2 Xia Ding,1,2 Muye Xia,1,2 Yin Wu,1– 3 Hongjie Chen,1,2 Rong Fan,1,2 Xiaoyong Zhang,1,2 Shaohang Cai,1,2 Jie Peng1,2 1Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis Research, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jie Peng; Shaohang CaiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of ChinaTel +86 020 6278 7428Fax +86 020 8771 9653Email pjie138@163.com; shaohangcai@foxmail.comObjective: It remains unknown how to stratify the risk of clinical relapse of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients after stopping nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) antiviral therapy.Methods: The current post hoc analysis included 122 non-cirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection who were positive for hepatitis B envelope antigen (HBeAg) and discontinued long-term NA therapy after achieving HBeAg seroconversion for a median of 2.5 years. …”
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Ontological and Non-Ontological Resources for Associating Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terms to SNOMED Clinical Terms With Semantic Properties by Cédric Bousquet, Cédric Bousquet, Julien Souvignet, Julien Souvignet, Éric Sadou, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gunnar Declerck

“…Our objective was to evaluate the potential of reuse of ontological and non-ontological resources for generating such definitions for MedDRA.Methods: We developed several methods that collectively allow a semiautomatic semantic enrichment of MedDRA: 1) using MedDRA-to-SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) mappings (available in the Unified Medical Language System metathesaurus or other mapping resources, e.g., the MedDRA preferred term “hepatitis B” is associated to the SNOMED CT concept “type B viral hepatitis”) to extract term definitions (e.g., “hepatitis B” is associated with the following properties: has finding site liver structure, has associated morphology inflammation morphology, and has causative agent hepatitis B virus); 2) using MedDRA labels and lexical/syntactic methods for automatic decomposition of complex MedDRA terms (e.g., the MedDRA systems organ class “blood and lymphatic system disorders” is decomposed in blood system disorders and lymphatic system disorders) or automatic suggestions of properties (e.g., the string “cyclic” in preferred term “cyclic neutropenia” leads to the property has clinical course cyclic).Results: The Unified Medical Language System metathesaurus was the main ontological resource reusable for generating formal definitions for MedDRA terms. …”
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Changing incidence of hepatitis B and persistent infection risk in adults: a population-based follow-up study from 2011 in China by Xiaolan Xu, Chensi Wu, Zhuoqi Lou, Chunting Peng, Lushun Jiang, Tianxian Wu, Taiwen Zeng, Yin Dong, Bing Ruan

“…Abstract Background This study aimed to estimate hepatitis B incidence and chronicity risk in rural adults in China under the background of eliminating viral hepatitis. Methods Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) screening was conducted every 2 years in demonstration areas since 2011. …”
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Genetic Variation of <i>SAMM50</i> Is Not an Independent Risk Factor for Alcoholic Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Caucasian Patients by Hans Dieter Nischalke, Franziska Schmalz, Stephan Buch, Janett Fischer, Christine Möller, Madlen Matz-Soja, Benjamin Krämer, Bettina Langhans, Alexandra Klüners, Michael Soyka, Felix Stickel, Jacob Nattermann, Thomas Berg, Christian P. Strassburg, Philipp Lutz

“…A large, well-characterised cohort of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis without (<i>n</i> = 674) and with (<i>n</i> = 386) HCC, as well as controls with HCC due to viral hepatitis (<i>n</i> = 134), controls with heavy alcohol abuse without liver disease (<i>n</i> = 266) and healthy subjects (<i>n</i> = 237), were genotyped for <i>SAMM50</i> rs3827385 and rs3761472 and for <i>PNPLA3</i> rs738409. …”
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Assessment of Diagnostic Specificity of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Tests and Their Application for Monitoring of Seroconversion and Stability of Antiviral Antibody Response in Health... by Vera S. Kichatova, Fedor A. Asadi Mobarkhan, Ilya A. Potemkin, Sergey P. Zlobin, Oksana M. Perfilieva, Vladimir T. Valuev-Elliston, Alexander V. Ivanov, Sergey A. Solonin, Mikhail A. Godkov, Maria G. Belikova, Mikhail I. Mikhailov, Karen K. Kyuregyan

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Prevalence of abnormal liver tests and liver fibrosis among rural adults in low and middle-income country: A cross-sectional study by Arulraj Ramakrishnan, Ganesan Velmurugan, Aravindh Somasundaram, Sundaresan Mohanraj, Dinakaran Vasudevan, Paari Vijayaragavan, Peter Nightingale, Krishnan Swaminathan, James Neuberger

“…There was an association of liver fibrosis with abnormal LFTs but no association between alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis, hepatic liver screening and liver fibrosis. …”
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Diagnostic significance of arterial wall stiffness in patients with chronic liver diseases by Yu.M. Stepanov, I.S. Konenko

“…According to the shear wave elastography, shear wave velocity was higher in patients with viral hepatitis — 1.60 (1.44–1.94) m/s vs 1.41 (1.31–1.54) m/s in NAFLD patients (p < 0.05). …”
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Anti-hepatitis C antibody carriage and risk of liver impairment in rural-Cameroon: adapting the control of hepatocellular carcinoma for resource-limited settings by Rodrigue Kamga Wouambo, Gaelle Panka Tchinda, Luc Aime Kagoue Simeni, Paule Dana Djouela Djoulako, Clarisse Irene Yateu Wouambo, Ghislaine Flore Tamko Mella, Eric Pascal Tchoumi Leuwat, Djoda Bello, Joseph Fokam

“…Abstract Background The Viral hepatitis elimination by 2030 is uncertain in resource-limited settings (RLS), due to high burdens and poor diagnostic coverage. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Inflammatory Markers of Omicron BA.5.2 Variant Infection in Hospitalized Patients and Their Predictive Role in Disease Prognosis by LIU Huan, HUANG Xiaoling, DAI Mengying, GUO Jiejie, GAO feng

“…According to the severity of the disease, they were classified into mild (40.98%, 1232/3006), ordinary (52.56%, 1580/3006), severe (4.26%, 128/3006), and critically severe (2.20%, 66/3006) groups.There were a significant differences(all P < 0.01) in the merging of underlying diseases including cardiac disease, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, lung disease, malignant tumor, brain disease, viral hepatitis and autoimmune disease among each group. …”
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Diffusion-weighted MRI in liver fibrosis staging: Added value of normalized ADC using spleen and renal cortex as reference organs by Tamer F. Taha Ali, Mona AbdelGhaffar El Hariri

“…Material and methods: 44 subjects were included: 30 patients with chronic viral hepatitis and 14 age matched volunteers. They were subjected to diffusion weighted MRI (DWI). …”
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Analysis of Common Pathways and Markers From Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease to Immune-Mediated Diseases by Rocío Gallego-Durán, Rocío Gallego-Durán, Rocío Montero-Vallejo, Rocío Montero-Vallejo, Douglas Maya-Miles, Douglas Maya-Miles, Ana Lucena, Ana Lucena, Ana Lucena, Franz Martin, Franz Martin, Javier Ampuero, Javier Ampuero, Javier Ampuero, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Manuel Romero-Gómez

“…This entity has displaced viral hepatitis as the main cause of severe forms of hepatic diseases, although the onset and transition of MAFLD stages still remains unclear. …”
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All-cause and COVID-19 mortality in Qatar during the COVID-19 pandemic by Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad, Roberto Bertollini, Adeel A Butt, Anvar Hassan Kaleeckal, Ali Nizar Latif, Mohamed H Al-Thani, Mariam Abdulmalik, Zaina Al-Kanaani, Sandy Semaan, Asma A AlNuaimi, Sawsan AlMukdad, Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi, Abdullatif Al-Khal

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Severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) from influenza in adult patients in Chile: the experience of a sentinel hospital by Alberto Fica, Viviana Sotomayor, Rodrigo Fasce, Jeannette Dabanch, Andrés Soto, Paulo Charpentier, Gonzalo Guerrero, Felipe Olivares, Vjera Triantafilo, Nathalie El Omeiri, Marina Gaínza-Lein

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