healthUpdated: Jun 28, 2020 18:48 ISTAccording to a recent study, patients who received a transplanted liver infected with hepatitis C, and were treated for the infection later, showed good signs of recovery. One patient in the experimental group died as a result of factors not related to hepatitis C during transplantation. “What we found is that you can use hepatitis C infected livers and the results in this interim analysis are the same whether there is a need to treat organs affected by hepatitis C or not. As part of the clinical trial, 32 patients received HCV-positive livers while a control group of 32 patients, all at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, received non infected livers for transplantation between June 2018 and October 2019. “There is a big difference between the demand and supply of livers and previously organs affected with hepatitis C were being discarded.

Source: Hindustan Times June 28, 2020 13:07 UTC