TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesham Abbass Elhalwagy
AU  - Ayman Amer , 
AU  - Mohamed Said Abdelaziz , 
AU  - Wafaa Elakel , 
TI  - Assessment of the quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated by inf-based therapy / 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Hesham Abbass Elhalwagy , 
KW  - Chronic HCV
KW  - HRQoL health related quality of life
KW  - LDQOL V 1.0 Liver disease quality of life version 1.0
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD
N2  - HCV - related chronic liver disease is a major health problem in Egypt which shows the highest prevalence of the disease worldwide. Health - related quality of life (HRQoL) is the main concern of health care professionals and is becoming an important health outcome indicator. As reported by many previous studies that treating HCV patients with Interferon based therapy causes many side effects and also affects the  patients{u2019} HRQoL. To Assess of the changes in QoL in Egyptian patient with chronic hepatitis C undergoing treatment with Peg - INF + RBV compared with pre-treatment  status and to evaluate the impact of QoL changes on patients undergoing the treatment. A follow up study based on 53 chronic hepatitis C patients receiving Peg - INF + RBV in National treatment program in El Kahira Elfatimia Hospital (one of the affiliated centers to National committee for control of Viral  Hepatitis NCCVH, Egypt). Patients were classified according to their end  of treatment response into responders n = 39, 73.6% and non - responders n = 14, 26.4%
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