BookMitchell L. Shiffman, editor.
Contents:
Part I. Natural history of chronic HCV
1. Epidemiology of chronic HCV / Gary L. Davis
2. Acute HCV / Katja Deterding, Heiner Wedemeyer, and Michael P. Manns
3. Assessing the progression of chronic HCV to cirrhosis / Gonzolo Crespo, Stella M. Martinez, and Xavier Forns
4. Chronic HCV and steatosis / Dawn McDowell Torres and Stephen A. Harrison
5. Chronic HCV and hepatocellular carcinoma / Morris Sherman
6. Extrahepatic manifestations of chronic HCV / Vincenza Calvaruso and Antonio Craxì
7. Chronic HCV and HIV coinfection / Patrick Ingiliz, Maud Lemoine, and Yves Benhamou
8. Chronic HCV in patients with renal disease / Paul Martin and Fabrizio Fabrizi
9. Does treatment alter the natural history of chronic HCV? / Fasiha Kanwal and Bruce R. Bacon
Part II. Treatment of chronic HCV with interferon-based therapy
10. Treatment with interferon and ribavirin / William Kemp and Stuart K. Roberts
11. Immune modulators and other agents / Edgar D. Charles and Ira M. Jacobson
12. Measuring HCV RNA and assessing virologic response / Jean-Michel Pawlotsky
13. Response-guided therapy / Mitchell L. Shiffman
14. Managing the side effects of therapy / Curtis Cooper
15. Genetics of virologic response / Alison B. Jazwinski and Andrew J. Muir
16. Maintenance therapy with peginterferon / Raza Malik and Nezam H. Afdhal
Part III. Anti-viral therapy for chronic HCV
17. Antiviral targets in HCV / B. Kronenberger and S. Zeuzem
18. Mutations and the development of anti-viral resistance / Anna Maria Geretti and Geoff Dusheiko
19. Peginterferon, ribavirin and anti-viral triple therapy / Patrick Marcellin, Nathalie Boyer, and Tarik Asselah
20. Treating chronic HCV without interferon and/or ribavirin / Edward J. Gane
21. Maintenance therapy with oral antiviral agents / Andrew Aronsohn and Donald Jensen
Part IV. Liver transplantation for chronic HCV
22. Natural history of chronic HCV after liver transplantation / Bart J. Veldt and Michael R. Charlton
23. Use of HCV-positive organs in patients with and without chronic HCV / Elizabeth C. Verna and Robert S. Brown Jr.
24. Treating HCV prior to liver transplantation / Alvaro Martinez-Camacho, Brett E. Fortune, and Gregory T. Everson
25. Treating HCV after liver transplantation / Michael Chang, Hubert Sung, and Sammy Saab.