{"id":326,"date":"2017-03-26T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/gi-and-renal\/hepatitis-c\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T08:14:57","slug":"hepatitis-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/gi\/hepatitis-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis C"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4><strong>Data gathering<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Red flags &#8211; wt loss<\/li>\n<li>Others &#8211; yellowing,itching, drugs, alcohol, STIs\/sexual history, blood transfusions<\/li>\n<li>Examine &#8211; abdo, pulse, BP, jaundice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4><strong>Clinical management<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigations\n<ul>\n<li>Bloods &#8211; HIV, HBV, HAV, ferritin, glucose, LFTs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Explanation\n<ul>\n<li>HCV is a disease carried in the blood, can damage the liver. Usually passed by sharing needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact. Some people clear it, in others it persists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Treatment\n<ul>\n<li>Refer to gastroenterology &#8211; treatments increase chance of clearing virus<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol &#8211; avoid<\/li>\n<li>Infectious &#8211; avoid sharing razors, safe sex, screen contacts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow-up \/ Safety net &#8211; PIL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<h4>\n<strong>Interpretation of HCV bloods<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>chronic &#8211; antibody positive, RNA positive<\/li>\n<li>antibody negative &#8211; repeat in 6mo as may take this to develop in bloods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data gathering Red flags &#8211; wt loss Others &#8211; yellowing,itching, drugs, alcohol, STIs\/sexual history, blood transfusions Examine &#8211; abdo, pulse, BP, jaundice &nbsp; Clinical management Investigations Bloods &#8211; HIV, HBV, HAV, ferritin, glucose, LFTs Explanation HCV is a disease carried in the blood, can damage the liver. Usually passed by sharing needles, blood transfusions, sexual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/gi\/hepatitis-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hepatitis C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":315,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/1498"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}