Hepatitis C Virus Epidemiology in Lithuania: Situation before Introduction of the National Screening Programme.

ABSTRACT: In 2022, the Lithuanian health authorities decided to pay general practitioners a fee for performing serological tests for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies in the population born from 1945 to 1994 once per life and annual HCV testing for PWID and HIV infected patients. This study aimed to assess trends in HCV-related mortality in the country and the prevalence of HCV infection among patients with liver diseases and evaluate possibilities of screening for HCV infection at a primary health care center. Age-standardized mortality rates in 2010-2020 were calculated for deaths caused by chronic hepatitis C and some liver diseases. Data on HCV infection among patients with liver cirrhosis, cancer and transplant patients were collected from the tertiary care hospital Kauno Klinikos. The prevale

SUBMITTER: Ciupkeviciene E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9230764 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature