ABSTRACT

Many factors have been associated the severity of recurrent disease (See Table 1).

Table 1. Risk factors for recurrent HCV hepatitis

• Treatment o f the recipient in anticipation of liver transplantation. The difficulty is achieving an adequate viral response on account of the intol­ erance of patients with cirrhosis for combination antiviral therapy

Post Transplant Therapy • Interferon and ribavirin

The unwanted effects o f therapy have hampered attempts at treatment in the first few weeks after transplant.