Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Patients with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection: Experience at a Single Center in Korea

CONCLUSION: In Korea, the HCV/HIV-coinfected patients who received antiviral treatment were younger, had higher proportion of men and incidence of genotype 1a, and had less advanced fibrosis than the HCV-monoinfected patients. In actual clinical settings, HCV/HIV-coinfected patients show excellent SVR to DAA treatment, similar to HCV-monoinfected patients.PMID:34845874 | DOI:10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e308
Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research