How do you explain the additional risks that a transplant recipient may carry by pursuing a hepatitis C positive organ if they are negative?
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Hepatology · UC San Diego Health
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I generally counsel that the risks are there from an infection-transmission perspective but that the treatment of hepatitis C is so facile and easily done now that there are not any long term risks. As long as we can get hepatitis C treatment started with the first few months after transplant (in reality, it happens within weeks), there is really no additional appreciable risk.
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