Evaluating psychiatric outcomes associated with direct-acting antiviral treatment in veterans with hepatitis C infection.

Bryan K Sackey Jana G Shults Troy A Moore Rachel Rogers Mina Mehvar Joshua G King

Published in: The mental health clinician (2018)

Treatment with DAA therapy was not associated with psychiatric decompensation. Data from this pilot study supports the safe utilization of DAA therapy in hepatitis C virus patients with preexisting MH illness as it appears to be devoid of depressive and psychiatric side effects.

Keyphrases

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