What Viruses Are Harmful For Autoimmune Hepatitis Patients

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HIV and Hepatitis C Co-Infection

Are you HIV positive and newly diagnosed with hepatitis C (Hep C)?Do you have one virus and think youmight be infected with the other? If so, this brochure answers somebasic questions about living withboth HIV and Hep C. What is HIV and Hep Cco-infection? When people have HIV and another major infectionsuch as Hep C, they are co-infected. HIV is a virusthat attacks the immune system, killing the CD4+cells that help the body fight off...

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Autoimmune Hepatitis and HIV

Hello,I am HIV+ detected 4-5 months ago, with good Cd4 over 700 and quite low viral. No treatment in this moment. Checking my blood test i got very low level of platelets (around 33000 last time) and quickly decreasing, plus high level of AST/ALT...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

This is quite a complicated question. First, you will want to talk to your doctor about whether a liver biopsy is warranted to get more information about possible autoimmune hepatitis and whether you should be seen by a liver specialist. There are... Read more »

autoimmune hepatitis

is autoimmune hepatitis genetic or hereditary ...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

It is suspected that some patients may have a genetic predisposition, but it is not known for sure. There are two types of autoimmune hepatitis. One can develop in people of any age. The other type, usually develops in only girls or young women and... Read more »

transmission of hepatitis virus

I apologize if you have answered this already, but I haven't been able to find any information about this specifically anywhere. I am a mental health care intern and we have some clients with hepatitis B and C. I know that these viruses can...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Yes dried blood can have live virus for some time; however, it would still require that this virus get into someone's bloodstream to infect them. That would be highly unlikely from environmental contamination.... Read more »

Epstein virus + hepatitis A positive

Doctor (p.a. stanford clinique) found high load of "Epstein" virus in my blood and anti-body to hepatitis A. HIV test is negative, but HIV symptoms are present (fatigue at the morning, weight loss, night sweats, so on, for many years). How...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

Dear Epstein,It is good that your HIV test is negative. Hepatitis A is quite common and never becomes chronic so you are cured of that infection. The test for Epstein-Barr virus is controversial. The symptoms you are describing can be many things... Read more »

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Viruses

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

If Hepatitis is a Virus and can be cured why not HIV ? Read more »

AIDS patient eradicted of HIV virus?

Posted by Mike89406, 4 Replies

Very interesting read while he went through some hardships doing this it sounds like the opening of a possible new door to treatment. The guy hasn't been on Meds for 600 days after a bone marrow transplant.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113... Read more »

joel gallant believes in other viruses!!!

Posted by uhohblita, 3 Replies

a very good question posted at Hopkins. I would just like to post this for those out there that think its ridiculous that there is some other HIV-like virus out there that may cause bad symptoms. joel even says so! now do you believe it?!

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Should I get a hepatitis test?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I thought it was pretty difficult to get hepatitis from a sexual encounter....should I worry about that? I have enough going on...don't need anything else. I am HIV negative. Should I worry about hepatitis or deal with what I have?

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