Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the leading causes of chronic liver disease worldwide. It poses a serious health risk. Liver cirrhosis of is also linked to a variety of cardiovascular abnormalities. Nowadays, direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C have the potential to reduce this disease burden, but their potential long-term cardiac effects are unknown. The aim of this work was to see how direct-acting antivirals affect the cardiac functions of naive Egyptians with chronic hepatitis C. The 90 treatment-naive adult patients with chronic hepatitis C were divided into two groups (cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic). Only two patients within the non-cirrhotic group and a patient among cirrhotic patients showed nonspecific ST segment changes which remained unchanged after treatments. Two non-cirrhotic patients and four cirrhotic patients showed T wave inversion, which remained static post treatment, but without significant difference in corrected QT interval before & after treatment between groups.
TALKAHN, M. G., MAGED, K. H. A., EL KILANY, H. H. R., MOHAMED, E. S., MOHAMED, H. G., & DAWOD, A. G. A. (2021). ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTIONS IN EGYPTIAN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT WITH DIRECTLY ACTING ANTIVIRALS. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 51(2), 405-410. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2021.193327
MLA
MOHAMED G. TALKAHN; KHALED H. ABDEL MAGED; HESHAM H. R. EL KILANY; ESLAM S. MOHAMED; HAITHAM G. MOHAMED; AYMAN G. A. DAWOD. "ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTIONS IN EGYPTIAN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT WITH DIRECTLY ACTING ANTIVIRALS". Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 51, 2, 2021, 405-410. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2021.193327
HARVARD
TALKAHN, M. G., MAGED, K. H. A., EL KILANY, H. H. R., MOHAMED, E. S., MOHAMED, H. G., DAWOD, A. G. A. (2021). 'ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTIONS IN EGYPTIAN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT WITH DIRECTLY ACTING ANTIVIRALS', Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 51(2), pp. 405-410. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2021.193327
VANCOUVER
TALKAHN, M. G., MAGED, K. H. A., EL KILANY, H. H. R., MOHAMED, E. S., MOHAMED, H. G., DAWOD, A. G. A. ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTIONS IN EGYPTIAN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT WITH DIRECTLY ACTING ANTIVIRALS. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2021; 51(2): 405-410. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2021.193327
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