HIV+ People Who Get Hepatitis C May Experience Rapid Liver Disease Progression
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- Category: HCV Sexual Transmission
- Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2013 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
People with HIV, especially those with advanced immune suppression, who become coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) may experience rapid progression to decompensated cirrhosis and liver-related death, Mt. Sinai researchers reported in the December 21, 2012, advance edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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