Hepatitis C disease severity in living versus deceased donor liver transplant recipients: an extended observation study.

Unlabelled: Donor factors influence hepatitis C virus (HCV) disease severity in liver transplant (LT) recipients. Living donors, because they are typically young and have short cold ischemic times, may be advantageous for HCV-infected patients. Among HCV-infected patients in the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL) surviving >90 days and followed for a median 4.

Race, insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis C.

Unlabelled: Hepatic steatosis is common in chronic hepatitis C and has been linked to concurrent obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, disease severity, and poor response to therapy. Racial differences in rates of obesity and diabetes may contribute to racial differences in hepatic steatosis and treatment response. The aim of the present study was to compare hepatic steatosis and its associations between African American (AA) and Caucasian American (CA) patients with chronic hepatitis C, genotype 1, participating in a prospective study of peginterferon and ribavirin therapy.