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- Title
Hepatitis C and Why the Treatment is Needed Now? The Summary Report From the Cross-Border Symposium of the 5th Tehran Hepatitis Congress May 2013.
- Authors
Ebrahimi Daryani, Nasser; Moayed Alavian, Seyed; Somi, Mohammad Hossein; Torabi-Nami, Mohammad
- Abstract
The cross-border symposium on hepatitis C, entitled “why treating now?” was held on 15th May 2013 during the 5th International Tehran Hepatitis Congress. The present report summarizing communicated insights during this symposium is intended to help health care providers to make well-informed decisions when treating patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). Since today's evolving science of hepatitis C management has introduced new treatment options, one should be well-versed about the potential benefits as well as untoward effects or practical challenges when using these regimens. In addition to outline HCV treatment advances, this symposium focused on the central question that why eligible patients with hepatitis C who may mostly benefit from the currently available protease inhibitors, should be treated now rather than be waited for the future therapies. Moreover, an overview of long term local experience with protease inhibitors in our challenging hepatitis C patients was presented during this interactive symposium.
- Subjects
IRAN; HEPATITIS C treatment; CONFERENCES &; conventions; REPORT writing; PROTEASE inhibitors
- Publication
Hepatitis Monthly, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1735-143X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5812/hepatmon.16082