Abstract:A 40-year-old man, diagnosed with decompensated liver cirrhosis because of hepatitis C virus, was on the wait list for a liver transplant when he began treatment with the direct-acting antivirals simeprevir 150 mg and sofosbuvir 400 mg. The patient demonstrated end of treatment virologic response at week 12, normal bilirubin, and alanine aminotransferase levels, resolution of ascites, with downgrading to subcompensated liver cirrhosis, and was removed from the liver transplant wait list. However, the patient d… Show more
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