| risk of hepatitis c virus (hcv) transmission by anti-hcv-negative blood components in austria and germany. | in order to estimate the residual risk of transfusion-transmitted hcv infection, we have analyzed data from transfusion centers in austria (vienna) and germany (göttingen) from 1990 to 1995. in vienna, the seroprevalence (riba-confirmed third-generation anti-hcv tests) was 0.28% in first-time donors (ftd) and the incidence of seroconversion in repeat donors (rd) was 0.049 (per 100 person years) from 1994 to 1995. in göttingen, the prevalence of a pcr-confirmed positive third-generation anti-hcv ... | 1996 | 8605278 |
| hepatocellular carcinoma in austria: aetiological and clinical characteristics at presentation. | the aetiology of chronic liver disease leading to hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) and the clinical characteristics at the time of presentation vary considerably among different parts of the world and over time. the number of patients seen at our institution has increased as compared to a period 20 years earlier. we investigated baseline characteristics of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma such as cirrhosis, hepatitis virus markers, age at presentation and stage of the tumour in an area with ... | 2000 | 10958223 |
| prevalence and distribution of hepatitis c subtypes in patients with opioid dependence. | aim and setting: the drug addiction out-patient clinic at the university hospital for psychiatry in vienna performed a study to identify the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infections in a group of opiate-dependent patients, to detect the distribution of hcv subtypes and to calculate the comorbidity of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis b virus (hbv). | 2000 | 11124573 |
| hcv genotypes and age distribution in patients of vienna and surrounding areas. | chronic hepatitis c (chc) can result in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. determination of the hepatitis c virus (hcv) genotype/subtype may be of prognostic value to estimate the risk of development of liver cirrhosis. | 2001 | 11163582 |
| hepatitis c in austria 1993-2000: reporting bias distort hcv epidemiology in austria. | from 1993 to 2000 in austria, the notification system registered 2232 cases of hepatitis c whereas 10 607 hospital cases were reported in the hospital discharge register (hdr). these differences can be explained by under-reporting due to lax reporting behaviour and stigma associated with this disease. the distribution of hcv infection varied geographically. the notification data showed the highest incidence rates in tyrol, while hdr data showed highest hospitalisation rates in vienna and lower a ... | 2003 | 12799478 |
| evaluation of a universal vs a targeted hepatitis c virus screening strategy among pregnant women at the vienna university hospital. | a universal vs a targeted hepatitis c virus (hcv) screening policy for identifying pregnant women with the virus were compared. universal screening did not yield significantly more identification of patients with hcv than targeted screening. however, 14 of 67 (21%) women with confirmed hcv would not have been detected by targeted risk-based hcv screening. | 2013 | 23084474 |
| [hepatitis b and c: incidence and regional distribution of hospitalizations in austria]. | the aim of this study was to describe the incidence as well as the geographical distribution of hospitalizations due to hepatitis b or c (according to icd 9) in austria between 1996 and 1998. the data were taken from the mbds (minimum basic data set) which contains medical, demographical and administrative recordings of every in-patient treated in an austrian hospital. hepatitis b: the mean value of shr (standardized hospitalization rate) amounted to 3.2/100.000 for the entire area of austria. a ... | 2000 | 11190715 |
| [hospitalizations due to hepatitis a, b and c in austria 1996-1998]. | the aim of this study is to analyse the data of all austrian in-patients who had been hospitalized between 1996 and 1998 with the main diagnosis "viral hepatitis" (according to icd 9), in order to present data for epidemiological as well as health-economical considerations. the data used stem from the "minimum basic data set" (mbds) which contains medical as well as demographical recordings of every in-patient treated in an austrian public hospital. hepatitis a: values of the standardized hospit ... | 2000 | 11081240 |