Chronic alcohol abuse and spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus

Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an uncommon occurrence in the course of chronic infection. We reported a rare case of a 41-year-old male patient infected with HCV genotype 3a who presented spontaneous viral elimination after increasing his daily consumption of alcoholic beverage....

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Autores principales: Pott, Henrique, Bricks, Guilherme, Senise, Jorge Figueiredo, Castelo, Adauto
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6667488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31384553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00534
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description Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an uncommon occurrence in the course of chronic infection. We reported a rare case of a 41-year-old male patient infected with HCV genotype 3a who presented spontaneous viral elimination after increasing his daily consumption of alcoholic beverage. In this short review, we overview how modulation of the hepatic inflammatory response could have a role in the viral elimination process.
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spelling pubmed-66674882019-08-05 Chronic alcohol abuse and spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus Pott, Henrique Bricks, Guilherme Senise, Jorge Figueiredo Castelo, Adauto IDCases Article Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an uncommon occurrence in the course of chronic infection. We reported a rare case of a 41-year-old male patient infected with HCV genotype 3a who presented spontaneous viral elimination after increasing his daily consumption of alcoholic beverage. In this short review, we overview how modulation of the hepatic inflammatory response could have a role in the viral elimination process. Elsevier 2019-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6667488/ /pubmed/31384553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00534 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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