Browsing by Author "Cheinquer, Hugo"

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    An update on the management of hepatitis C : guidelines for protease inhibitor-based triple therapy from the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver
    (2013) Chávez Tapia, Norberto C.; Ridruejo, Ezequiel; Alves De Mattos, Angelo; Bessone, Fernando; Druich, Jorge; Sánchez Avila, Juan F.; Cheinquer, Hugo; Zapata, Rodrigo; Uribe, Misael; Soza, Alejandro; Bosques Padilla, Francisco; Gadano Espinoza, Adrián; Dávalos Moscol, Milagro; Marroni, Claudio; Muñoz Espinoza, Linda; Castro Narro, Graciela; Paraná, Raimundo; Méndez Sánchez, Nahum
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    Decompensated cirrhosis and liver transplantation negatively impact in DAA treatment response: Real-world experience from HCV-LALREAN cohort
    (2020) Ridruejo, Ezequiel; Piñero, Federico; Mendizabal, Manuel; Cheinquer, Hugo; Soza, Alejandro; Herz Wolff, Fernando; Anders, Margarita; Reggiardo, Virginia; Ameigeiras, Beatriz; Palazzo, Ana; Alonso, Cristina; Schinoni, María Isabel; Videla Zuain, María Grazia; Tanno, Federico; Figueroa, Sebastián; Santos, Luisa; Peralta, Mirta; Vistarini, Cecilia; Adrover, Raúl; Fernández, Nora
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    Implementation of a re-linkage to care strategy in patients with chronic hepatitis C who were lost to follow-up in Latin America
    (2023) Mendizabal, Manuel; Thompson, Marcos; Gonzalez-Ballerga, Esteban; Anders, Margarita; Castro-Narro, Graciela E.; Pessoa, Mario G.; Cheinquer, Hugo; Mezzano, Gabriel; Palazzo, Ana; Ridruejo, Ezequiel; Descalzi, Valeria; Velarde-Ruiz Velasco, Jose A.; Marciano, Sebastian; Munoz, Linda; Schinoni, Maria, I; Poniachik, Jaime; Perazzo, Rosalia; Cerda, Eira; Fuster, Francisco; Varon, Adriana; Ruiz Garcia, Sandro; Soza, Alejandro; Cabrera, Cecilia; Gomez-Aldana, Andres J.; de Maria Beltran, Flor; Gerona, Solange; Cocozzella, Daniel; Bessone, Fernando; Hernandez, Nelia; Alonso, Cristina; Ferreiro, Melina; Antinucci, Florencia; Torre, Aldo; Moutinho, Bruna D.; Coelho Borges, Silvia; Gomez, Fernando; Dolores Murga, Maria; Pinero, Federico; Sotera, Gisela F.; Ocampo, Jhonier A.; Cortes Mollinedo, Valeria A.; Simian, Daniela; Silva, Marcelo O.
    To achieve WHO's goal of eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV), innovative strategies must be designed to diagnose and treat more patients. Therefore, we aimed to describe an implementation strategy to identify patients with HCV who were lost to follow-up (LTFU) and offer them re-linkage to HCV care. We conducted an implementation study utilizing a strategy to contact patients with HCV who were not under regular follow-up in 13 countries from Latin America. Patients with HCV were identified by the international classification of diseases (ICD-9/10) or equivalent. Medical records were then reviewed to confirm the diagnosis of chronic HCV infection defined by anti-HCV+ and detectable HCV-RNA. Identified patients who were not under follow-up by a liver specialist were contacted by telephone or email, and offered a medical reevaluation. A total of 10,364 patients were classified to have HCV. After reviewing their medical charts, 1349 (13%) had undetectable HCV-RNA or were wrongly coded. Overall, 9015 (86.9%) individuals were identified with chronic HCV infection. A total of 5096 (56.5%) patients were under routine HCV care and 3919 (43.5%) had been LTFU. We were able to contact 1617 (41.3%) of the 3919 patients who were LTFU at the primary medical institution, of which 427 (26.4%) were cured at a different institutions or were dead. Of the remaining patients, 906 (76.1%) were candidates for retrieval. In our cohort, about one out of four patients with chronic HCV who were LTFU were candidates to receive treatment. This strategy has the potential to be effective, accessible and significantly impacts on the HCV care cascade.
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    Treatment with direct‐acting antivirals for HCV decreases but does not eliminate the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma
    (2019) Piñero, Federico; Mendizabal, Manuel; Ridruejo, Ezequiel; Herz Wolff, Fernando; Ameigeiras, Beatriz; Anders, Margarita; Schinoni, María Isabel; Reggiardo, María Virginia; Palazzo, Ana; Soza, Alejandro; Videla, María; Alonso, Cristina; Santos, Luisa; Varón, Adriana; Figueroa, Sebastián; Vistarini, Cecilia; Adrover, Raúl; Fernández, Nora; Perez, Daniela; Tanno, Federico; Hernández, Nelia; Sixto, Marcela; Borzi, Silvia; Bruno, Andres; Cocozzella, Daniel; Descalzi, Valeria; Estepo, Claudio; Zerega, Alina; Araujo, Alexandre de; Cheinquer, Hugo; Silva, Marcelo; LALREAN