Hepatitis C Treatment

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Hepatitis C Treatment
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Treatment Overview

• You may or may not receive treatment for 
• hepatitis C, depending on
• How damaged your liver is.
• Other health conditions you have.
• How much hepatitis C virus you have in your body.
• What type (genotype) of hepatitis C you have.
• The medicines used to treat hepatitis C can cause
  serious side effects, are expensive, and don't
  work for everyone.

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Treatment of short-term (acute) hepatitis C

• Most people who have acute hepatitis C don't get
  treated, because they don't know that they have
  the virus.
• If a person knows that he or she may have been
  exposed to the virus-such as a health care worker
  who is stuck by a needle-acute hepatitis C can be
  found early. Most people who are known to have an
  acute hepatitis C infection get treated with
  medicine. In these cases, treatment may help
  prevent long-term (chronic) infection, although
  there is still some debate over when to begin
  treatment and how long to treat acute hepatitis C

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Treatment of long-term (chronic) hepatitis C

• It is common for people to live with hepatitis C
  for years without knowing they have it, because
  they do not have symptoms. So most people
  diagnosed with hepatitis C find out that they
  already have long-term, chronic infection.
• Treatment with a combination of antiviral
  medicines can fight the viral infection and
  prevent serious liver problems like cirrhosis or l
  iver cancer. They are used for 12 weeks to a year
  and help your body get rid of the virus.
• Whether or not you take medicines to treat
  hepatitis C, you will need to have
  routine blood tests to help your doctor know how
  well your liver is working.

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Treatment if the condition gets worse

• Severe liver damage caused by chronic hepatitis
  C usually takes 20 or more years to develop.
• If your hepatitis C continues to get worse, it
  can cause your liver to stop working, a condition
  called end-stage liver failure. In this case,
  a liver transplant may be the only way to extend
  your life. But if you are drinking alcohol, are
  sharing needles to inject drugs, or have
  severe depression or certain other mental
  illnesses, liver transplant may not be an option.

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End-of-life issues

• Most people with chronic hepatitis C will not die
  from the disease. But 1 to 5 out of 100 people
  with severe liver damage from chronic hepatitis C
  will die because of the virus. Even if a liver
  transplant is done as a last possible treatment,
  there can be complications that lead to death. 
• What to think about
• There is no vaccine for hepatitis C, but there
  are vaccines for hepatitis A and hepatitis B.
  Your doctor may recommend that you have
  these vaccines to help protect you from more
  liver problems.

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