Medical Help For Chronic Hepatitis C

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EMBARAZO Y HEPATITISC

HOLA DOCTOR : A MI ESPOSO HACE 2 AOS LE DIAGNOSTICARON HEPATITIS C HIZO EL TRATAMIENTO CON INTERFERON Y RIVABIRINA . EL TRATAMIENTO YA SE TERMINO HACE UN AO Y QUEREMOS SABER SI PODEMOS TENER UN BEBE Y EL RIESGO QUE CORREMOS. QUE ES LO...

Response from Maribel Rodriguez-Torres, M.D.

Fundacion Gatroenterologia De Diego

Si su esposo completo el tratamiento hace 12 meses,no hay ningun problema siempre y cuando que Ud. sea negativa.Ya no hay efecto en su esposo de la ribavirina,que pueda ser perjudicial al feto.Mujeres positivas pueden trasmitir el virus al dar a luz... Read more »

How to cure HepatitisC1a ?

I am 67 and contactedHepC when I was 62 out of a hospital stay. I am in a small catagories, tht I... Read more »

Response from Lynn E. Taylor, M.D., F.A.C.P. »

is this acute or chronic hep-c

I am a health care worker.Back in 1992 I had some mild increase in LFT ALT 60 hepatitis-c antibody... Read more »

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D. »

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I am looking for some volunteers to write a brief paragraph on their take of some of the issues listed on our site. http://www.aids-hepatitisc.org

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Symptoms Still Present after 6 months.....

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

Hi,

I've been visiting this site as well as others in search of information regarding "delayed seroconversion". I have had a negative antibody test at 3 months, 4.5 months and 6 months. I would have put this behind be a long time ago, but I still... Read more »

A los profesionales (opinion)

Posted by Nitram2, 3 Replies

Hola, yo escrib hace un tiempo para ver si poda calmar mis temores, pero, veo que no puedo.

En mayo '06 tuve una relacin de riesgo con una sexoservidora, y la situacin de riesgo fueron besos, masturbacin mutua, y la mas estpida (estaba ebrio) dos... Read more »

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