BMJ Best Practice Podcast

Hepatitis C: What have been our successes so far?

Following acute exposure to the hepatitis C virus, most people develop chronic infection that increases the risk for long-term hepatic complications. Current treatment with oral direct-acting agents aims to eradicate the virus.
Jawad Ahmad, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses hepatitis C infection with BMJ Knowledge Centre's U.S. Clinical Lead Sheila Feit, including future directions for a rapidly evolving field.
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The below topics will be made freely available for 2 weeks from World Hepatitis Day (28th July 2017):
Hepatitis C Step-by-step management:
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/128/treatment/details.html
Treatment guidelines including American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and European Association for Study of the Liver (EASL)
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/128/treatment/guidelines.html
Hepatitis C Clinical Update in The BMJ (free access until 10th August 2017)
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2861
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Hepatitis B: How to approach diagnosis and management of chronic infection

Most people with chronic hepatitis B infection are asymptomatic, but long-term complications may include cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver failure.
Jawad Ahmad, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses hepatitis B virus infection with BMJ Knowledge Centre's U.S. Clinical Lead Sheila Feit, including how to approach diagnostic serologies and treatment to help reduce the risk of advanced liver disease.
More information available at the BMJ Best Practice website:
http://bestpractice.bmj.com.
About BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice takes you quickly and accurately to the latest evidence based information, whenever and wherever you need it. Our step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention is updated daily using robust evidence based methodology and expert opinion.
We support you in implementing good practice.
Sign up to a free 7 day trial here*:
bestpractice.bmj.com/info/subscribe/free-trial/
The below topics will be made freely available for 2 weeks from World Hepatitis Day (28th July 2017):
Hepatitis B Diagnostic investigations:
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/127/diagnosis/tests.html
Hepatitis B Step-by-step management:
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/127/treatment/details.html
Treatment guidelines including American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and European Association for Study of the Liver (EASL)
http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/127/treatment/guidelines.html
*Please note that free personal trials and personal subscriptions are not available in North America.
_
The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others.

Trigeminal neuralgia - the evidence base for medical and surgical treatments

A BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic overview looks at the evidence for medical and surgical treatments of trigeminal neuralgia, and the uncertainties that exist due to gaps in the evidence. This has been summarised in The BMJ.
The authors of the overview and bmj.comsummary, Prof. Joanna Zakrzewska from the Facial Pain Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London, and Mark Linskey, Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California Irvine, discuss the evidence, the issues around it, and put this all into a clinical context.
Read the full systematic overview:
http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/x/systematic-review/1207/overview.html
Disclaimer:
The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions.
By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others.
BMJ does not warrant the accuracy of the information contained in the podcast and to the fullest extent permitted by law, BMJ Publishing Group Limited is not responsible for any loss whatsoever resulting from the application of, or reliance upon, the information contained in this podcast.