Discussion of chronic hepatitis C problem in reports of the15-th United European Gastroenterology Week (Paris, 2007)

Abstract

The aim of review. Discussion of the 15-th United European Gastroenterology Week reports (15-UEGW), devoted to chronic hepatitis C.

Recent literature data. In the reports submitted to 15-th UEGW, the basic attention was given to study of factors affecting efficacy of antiviral therapy, to development of methods, predicting treatment response in early terms, to search of the routes of improvement of its results.

Conclusion. According to the majority of reports, up-to-date modes of antiviral therapy are quite effective, and available methods allow to predict the virologic response to treatment.