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Abstract
Subjects and methods: This multi-center cross sectional study included 500 patients receiving hemodialysis sessions on regular basis for more than 3 months in Dakahlia Governorate, patient recruitment from November 2022 to April 2023.
Result; According to patients` medical history we found that, 23.4% of patients had previous HCV infection from them 12.6% received treatment and 10.8% didn`t receive treatment due to several causes as one patient didn`t know about the drug availability, five patients (1%) fear from occurrence of side effects, 43 patients (8.6%) didn`t need treatment and five patients (1%) had other causes as had contraindication of drugs, non-compliance and deterioration of health status. Also, 20.4% of patients had been informed that they completely recovered and 0.8% had recurrence. After investigations, 1% of patients had positive HbsAg, 23.4% had positive HCV Ab, 4.2% positive HCV PCR.
Conclusion; The low prevalence of HCV among hemodialysis patients of HCV in HD patients confirm that HCV infection doesn’t become a major health problem among patients on maintenance HD.