eViralHepatitis Review

In this podcast Dr. David Wyles discusses managing DAA failures with the newly approved treatment options for hepatitis C.

In this podcast, Andrew J. Muir, MD from Duke University School of Medicine discusses the real-world data to support a sofosbuvir-ledipasvir treatment duration of 8 weeks versus 12 weeks, summarizes the current hepatitis C treatment options for patients with advanced kidney disease, and describes the risks and benefits of hepatitis C therapies in HIV-HCV coinfected patients.

this podcast, Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH and Richard Blondell, MD from the University at Buffalo discuss expanding HCV screening in persons with substance abuse disorders.

In this podcast Daryl T. Y. Lau, MD, MSc, MPH from Harvard Medical School discussed how to evaluate and mange patients who do not meet treatment criteria, the management of chronic hepatitis B during pregnancy, and how to identify patients appropriate for tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) therapy.

Our guests authors are Mindie Nguyen, MD, MAS, from Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and Dr. Iris Liou, MD of the University of Washington.

Drs Jordan Feld, MD, MPH and Joel Emery, HBSc, MD cover the important topic of Extrahepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis C: Screening and Management in the format of case-study scenarios for the clinical practice.

Drs Kenneth Sherman, MD, PhD and Nadeem Anwar, MD cover the important topic of New Approaches to the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic HBV Infection in the format of case-study scenarios for the clinical practice.

Raymond T. Chung, MD from Harvard Medical School interviews Dr. David Wyles from the University of California San Diego about his presentation: Sofosbuvir/Velpatasivr Fixed Dose Combination for 12 Weeks in Patients Co-Infected with HCV and HIV-1: The Phase 3 ASTRAL-5 Study, presented at the April 2016 EASL meeting.

Raymond T. Chung, MD from Harvard Medical School interviews Dr. Michael Charlton from Intermountain Medical Center about his abstract: Resistance Analyses for Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir-Containing Regimens in Patients Infected with Chronic HCV Who Have Advanced Liver Disease or are Post Liver Transplant(SOLAR-1 & 2 Studies), presented at the April 2016 EASL meeting.

Raymond T. Chung, MD from Harvard Medical School interviews Dr. Eric Lawitz from the University of Texas Health Science Center about his presentation: High Efficacy of Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir Plus GS-9857 for 12 Weeks in Treatment-Experienced Genotype 1-6 HCV-Infected Patients, Including Those Previously Treated with Direct-Acting Antivirals presented at the April 2016 EASL meeting.