Raefa Refaat Alam Author

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Effect of Direct Acting Antiviral treatment on quality of life of chronic hepatitis C patients and its relation to sustained viral response: A pre-post intervention study

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Raefa Refaat Alam

Background: Hepatitis C virus constitutes an epidemic in Egypt having the highest prevalence in the world of 14.7%, making it the most challenging public health problem facing the country with genotype 4 is the dominant. It is associated with impaired quality of life (QoL). The study objective is to compare the QoL score immediately and three months after direct acting antiviral treatment with score before treatment in chronic hepatitis C in patients with and without SVR

Methods: This is a pre-post study carried out in the Egyptian Liver Hospital, Sherbin City, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. Data was collected from 38 patients before treatment and QoL scale was re-measured immediately after the end of treatment and three months after treatment during the follow-up visit. They re... view more»

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