Liver transplants succeed in many hepatitis C patients
By Nathan Seppa
People with the liver-wrecking hepatitis C virus who receive liver transplants are usually considered to have poor prospects because physicians expect the disease to attack the transplant within a few years. But researchers now report that these hepatitis C patients fare about as well over the decade following the procedure as do patients receiving liver transplants to ameliorate other conditions.
More than one-third of the livers transplanted in the United States go to hepatitis C patients.