Can you develop cirrhosis from hepatitis C?

Cirrhosis, simply put is a chronic condition of the liver. It has many causes such as nutritional deficiencies, poisons (ie alcohol), and bacteria, parasites and viruses (ie Hep C).

I guess that depends on how bad you rate death, and/or extreme debilitation while waiting for a liver transplant (#1 cause of liver transplants), and/or liver cancer, and/or life altering debilitat...

You should still be on some form of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds.... Detoxing off of antiviral chemotherapy is not a picnic. You should also continue to drink water like as if you were st...

To answer your question accurately I would need more information about your sister and look at other lab test results. What I can say is that if someone comes back with an HBsAg+ test they eithe...

Although hepatitis C damages the liver, 80% of people with the disease do not have symptoms. In those who do, symptoms may not appear for 10-20 years, or even longer. Even then, the symptoms usuall...

Kanishk has it mostly right, but Hep C is not an STD really - it can only be contracted via blood to blood contact so unless you are into extremely rough sex then it's really not possible to g...

Wow 80 % is a very big percentage. First you have to know our population is 80 million. Second we have only 8,954 have Hepatitis A so it is not a big number may be you mean Hepatitis C there is 5...

Yes. In fact, only 6-10% of people infected with the Hep B virus (HBV) actually become chronically infected. The rest of the people actually clear/cure the virus from the body naturally (via the...