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    • Hepatitis C hospitalizations in Spain and impact of new curative antiviral therapies 

      Ramos-Rincón, José-Manuel; Pinargote-Celorio, Héctor; de Mendoza, Carmen; Ramos-Belinchón, Clara; Barreiro, Pablo; Gómez-Gallego, Felix; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Soriano, Vicente (Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 2022)
      Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is major cause of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer. The advent of curative new antiviral therapies since year 2015 has dramatically improved the prognosis of HCV patients. ...

    • Hepatitis delta in patients with resolved hepatitis B virus infection 

      Aguilera, Antonio; Rodríguez-Calviño, Javier; Mendoza, Carmen de; Soriano, Vicente (European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 09/2018)
      Background The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) causes the most aggressive form of chronic viral hepatitis. As HDV replication requires hepatitis B virus (HBV), HDV screening is limited to HBsAg+ carriers. To date, individuals ...

    • Liver cancer and hepatic decompensation events in patients hospitalized with viral hepatitis in Spain 

      Ramos-Rincón, José-Manuel; Pinargote-Celorio, Héctor; de Mendoza, Carmen; Ramos-Belinchón, Clara; Barreiro, Pablo; Treviño, Ana; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Soriano, Vicente (Hepatology International, 2022)
      Background: Chronic viral hepatitis B, C, and D are the main causes of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer worldwide. Newborn HBV vaccination was implemented more than 2 decades ago in most EU countries. Furthermore, ...

    • Overt and occult hepatitis B among immigrants and native blood donors in Madrid, Spain 

      González, Rocío; Barea, Luisa; Arruga, Ana; Richart, Alberto; Soriano, Vicente (Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 12/2020)
      Background: The risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections is very low in developed countries. Recent massive migration flows from highly hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and/or HIV endemic regions ...

    • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for viral infections other than HIV 

      Soriano, Vicente; Treviño, Ana; de Mendoza, Carmen; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; Pintos, Ilduara; Barreiro, Pablo; Corral, Octavio Jorge (Infezioni in Medicina, 2022)
      The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ...

    • Prevalence and incidence of hepatitis delta in patients with chronic hepatitis B in Spain 

      Aguilera, Antonio; Trastoy, Rocío; Rodríguez-Calviño, Javier; Manso, Tamara; Mendoza, Carmen de; Soriano, Vicente (European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 09/2018)
      Background Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a defective agent that only replicates in the presence of the hepatitis B virus. Accordingly, HDV acquisition may occur as superinfection of HBsAg+ carriers or following acute dual ...

    • The opioid epidemic during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on HIV and HCV control 

      Treviño, Ana ; Soriano, Vicente (NLM (Medline), 2021)
      The opioid epidemic is a tragedy in the United States. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 US citizens died of drug overdose, up almost 30% from the 78,000 deaths in the prior year.

    • Ultra-long-acting (XLA) antivirals for chronic viral hepatitis 

      Soriano, Vicente ; Alvarez, Carmen ; Edagwa, Benson; de Mendoza, Carmen; Montoya, Noemí ; Treviño, Ana ; Gendelman, Howard E. (Elsevier B.V., 2022)
      Viral hepatitis is among the top four causes of mortality globally, causing 1.4 million deaths each year, exceeding tuberculosis, malaria and human immunodeficiency virus. Hepatitis B and C are responsible for 90% of ...

    • Viral hepatitis in persons living with HIV in the post-COVID era 

      Soriano, Vicente; Moreno-Torres, Víctor; de Mendoza, Carmen; Corral, Octavio Jorge; Barreiro, Pablo (AIDS reviews, 2023)
      Coinfection with hepatitis viruses A to E is frequent in persons living with HIV (PLWH) and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Oro-fecal transmissible hepatitis A and E mostly produce acute self-limited episodes ...