Changes in Bone Microarchitecture and Inflammatory Cytokines After Cure of Chronic Hepatitis C Infection With Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy
Participants with cured HCV had no significant changes in bone microarchitecture by HR-pQCT 18 months after DAA initiation compared with controls, but did have decreases in IL-18 and TNF-α versus controls.
Authors
- Siobhán Smith
- Rebecca A. Hubbard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0879-0994)
- X. Sherry Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7247-2232)
- Stacey Trooskin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1051-0939)
- Dena M. Carbonari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0310-270X)
- Jay R. Kostman
- Joshua F. Baker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-7563)
- Mary Beth Leonard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-6582)
- Babette S. Zemel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6164-7348)
- Vincent Lo Re (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7955-0600)
- Jessie Torgersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7861-1421)
- Erica J Weinstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3545-8962)
- Craig Newcomb
- Katherine L Brecker
Institutions
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Palo Alto University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Mazzoni Center (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Center for Clinical Research (United States) (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Philadelphia Fight (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf571
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.32