Terrault Norah A
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
F1000Res. 2019 Jan 14;8. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.15892.1. eCollection 2019.
Hepatitis C infection has affected 189 million people globally and more than 4 million in the US. Owing to remarkable advances in the therapeutic sphere, essentially all infected patients can be expected to achieve cure. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to eliminate the risk of complications from hepatitis C and to reduce the spread of the virus to others. To achieve this, a streamlined cascade of care from diagnosis to treatment may be enacted. Although great strides have been made, under-diagnosis and under-treatment remain major hurdles.
丙型肝炎感染在全球影响了1.89亿人,在美国影响了400多万人。由于治疗领域的显著进展,基本上所有感染患者都有望治愈。这为消除丙型肝炎并发症风险以及减少病毒向他人传播提供了前所未有的机会。为实现这一目标,可以制定从诊断到治疗的简化护理流程。尽管已经取得了巨大进展,但诊断不足和治疗不足仍然是主要障碍。