[Improvement of clinical course of liver cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C after sucessful treatment with direct acting antivirals].

Direct-acting antivirals are new drugs, highly effective and safe against chronic hepatitis C. However, despite of hepatitis C erradication in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis, their effect in improving the clinical course, reducing liver-related complications and the risk of developing portal hypertension and hepatocellular carcinoma is still controversial. We present two patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis Child B due to hepatitis C who received treatment with direct-acting antiviral drugs.

[Prevalence of histological types of gastric polyps in adult patients from a public hospital in Lima-Peru (2007 - 2016)].

Objectives: Establish the prevalence of gastric polyps detected by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients older than 18 years old during the period from 2007 - 2016 in Cayetano Heredia Hospital.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study, performed with data from the gastric biopsies reports of patients that have undergone upper gastrointestinal endoscopy between January 2007 and July 2016. Demographic data, endoscopic characteristics of the polyps and associated histological changes of the surrounding gastric mucosa were evaluated, which were subjected to statistical analysis using STATA v14.