Browsing School of Health Sciences (Health-Sciences) by Subject "Liver disease"

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    • The liver in HIV in Africa 

      Ocama, Ponsiano; Feld, Jordan J; Ronald, Allan (International Medical Press, 2005)
      As access to antiretroviral therapy improves across the African continent, liver disease is emerging as an important cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected individuals. Although coinfection with hepatitis B ...

    • Prevalence and factors associated with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C among patients with liver disease in Mulago Hospital 

      Nazziwa, Esther Rosette (2008)
      Introduction: Both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C virus and endemic in Uganda and are known cause of liver disease, including acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver disease in ...

    • The spectrum of liver diseases in HIV infected individuals at an HIV treatment clinic in Kampala, Uganda 

      Ocama, Ponsiano; Katwere, Michael; Piloya, Theresa; Feld, Jordan; Opio, Kenneth C.; Katabira, Elly; Thomas, David; Colebunders, Robert; Ronald, Allan (Makerere University Medical School, 2008-03)
      Background: Liver diseases are common in patients with HIV due to viral hepatitis B and C co-infections, opportunistic infections or malignancies, antiretroviral drugs and drugs for opportunistic infections. Objective: To ...

    • Treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in resource-constrained settings: expert panel consensus 

      Wiersma, Steven T.; McMahon, Brian; Pawlotsky, Jean-Michel; Thio, Chloe L.; Thursz, Mark; Lim, Seng Gee; Ocama, Ponsiano; Esmat, Gamal; Maimuna, Mendy; Bell, David; Vitoria, Marco; Eramova, Irina; Lavanchy, Daniel; Dusheiko, Geoff (John Wiley & Sons, 2010)
      Most of the estimated 350 million people with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection live in resource-constrained settings. Up to 25% of those persons will die prematurely of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or cirrhosis. ...