Natural History of Hepatitis C in Patients With Normal Liver Tests

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Hepatitis C

Treatments: Procedure: liver biopsy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00187473

H10102-17633

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Major goals of this project was to assess the natural history of disease in chronic hepatitis C patients with normal ALT and to determine the virologic and host factors associated with disease severity.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with chronic hepatitis C and persistently normal liver enzymes
• able to give consent

Exclusion criteria

• decompensated liver disease
• any prior antiviral or immunosuppressive therapy
• other liver disease besides hepatitis C