What is it about?
Patients with oral lichen planus are occasionally complicated by hepatitis C. The present patient, who was aware of hepatitis C but had not received antiviral treatment for 30 years, visited to a dental clinic because of the development of oral lichen planus. Here we present a case in which antiviral therapy recommended by an oral surgeon resulted in eradication of HCV and improvement of lichen planus.
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Why is it important?
Although hepatitis C can now be treated with oral antivirals, there are still untreated HCV-infected patients. Dentists serve as gatekeepers to guide untreated hepatitis patients to appropriate treatment.
Perspectives
With a view to eradicating liver cancer, dentists should recommend close examination of liver disease to patients with lichen planus and aggressive antiviral treatment to untreated hepatitis C patients.
Yumiko Nagao
Juntendo Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Onset of Oral Lichen Planus Led to Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy in a Patient with Long-Term Hepatitis C: The Role of a Dentist as Gatekeeper, Case Reports in Gastroenterology, January 2023, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000528681.
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