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Actief or not?
Doe's somebody knows what is actief hepatitis C? I thought that every hepatitis C is always actief because it's always destroying your lever. Even if it's happening slowly. Or doe's it depend on your virusload? I realy don't understand that and can not find it anywhere.
...Or doe's it depend on your virusload?...
Fpund this good article on viral load published by WEBMD: c2012
SOURCES:
Frank Anania, MD, associate professor of medicine; director, hepatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.
Brian L. Pearlman, MD, medical director, center for hepatitis C, Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta; associate professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta.
http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/c-hcv-viral-load
Excerpt:
Am I Getting Sicker if My Viral Load Is Rising?
Dr. Anania: Not necessarily. With HCV, viral burden in hepatitis C does not necessarily predict the natural history of clinical disease. And therefore, patients need to understand that we use that measurement to help us guide therapy and response to therapy. We use it in conjunction with other types of laboratory data -- liver enzymes, liver biopsies sometimes, and viral genotype. Taken all together, these tests give us a snapshot of what is going on. But viral load numbers do not predict disease.
Dr. Pearlman: Unlike HIV, HCV viral copies do not directly affect a patient's prognosis and how fast disease is progressing in the liver. Remember, we are measuring blood levels, not what is happening in liver cells. HIV viral load does have a lot to do with quicker progression to AIDS. But HCV viral load does not tell you how fast hepatitis is progressing.
I suggest you read the rest of the article.
Best of luck.
Nan
Fpund this good article on viral load published by WEBMD: c2012
SOURCES:
Frank Anania, MD, associate professor of medicine; director, hepatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.
Brian L. Pearlman, MD, medical director, center for hepatitis C, Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta; associate professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta.
http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/c-hcv-viral-load
Excerpt:
Am I Getting Sicker if My Viral Load Is Rising?
Dr. Anania: Not necessarily. With HCV, viral burden in hepatitis C does not necessarily predict the natural history of clinical disease. And therefore, patients need to understand that we use that measurement to help us guide therapy and response to therapy. We use it in conjunction with other types of laboratory data -- liver enzymes, liver biopsies sometimes, and viral genotype. Taken all together, these tests give us a snapshot of what is going on. But viral load numbers do not predict disease.
Dr. Pearlman: Unlike HIV, HCV viral copies do not directly affect a patient's prognosis and how fast disease is progressing in the liver. Remember, we are measuring blood levels, not what is happening in liver cells. HIV viral load does have a lot to do with quicker progression to AIDS. But HCV viral load does not tell you how fast hepatitis is progressing.
I suggest you read the rest of the article.
Best of luck.
Nan
Hi.
There really is no such thing as "active " or "inactive" HCV.
If one has contracted the virus ,and it becomes chronic( meaning that within the first six months the body's own immune system has not cleared the virus ) then the virus is in your blood stream until the drug therapy is successful in eradicating it.
Liver damage (fibrosis) happens at differing rates for everyone and the amount of viral load has no real significance to that process as it is the bodys own immune system attacking the virus that eventually scars the liver in most people.
Best...
Will
There really is no such thing as "active " or "inactive" HCV.
If one has contracted the virus ,and it becomes chronic( meaning that within the first six months the body's own immune system has not cleared the virus ) then the virus is in your blood stream until the drug therapy is successful in eradicating it.
Liver damage (fibrosis) happens at differing rates for everyone and the amount of viral load has no real significance to that process as it is the bodys own immune system attacking the virus that eventually scars the liver in most people.
Best...
Will
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