CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Linkage to Care for Patients With HDV

Episode Summary

Your patient tests positive for hepatitis delta virus (HDV). Now what? Listen as 2 experts discuss challenges and opportunities in linking patients with HDV to care.

Episode Notes

You can think of the ā€œDā€ in HDV as standing for difficult, disadvantaged, and dangerous. Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is difficult to diagnose, is often diagnosed in disadvantaged patient populations, and leads to dangerous sequelae.

Listen as Dr. Kosh Agarwal and Dr. Graham R. Foster and discuss challenges and opportunities for linking patients to care after a positive test for HDV.

Presenters:

Kosh Agarwal, MD
Consultant Hepatologist and Transplant Physician
Institute of Liver Studies
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London, United Kingdom

Graham R. Foster, FRCP, PhD
Professor of Hepatology
The Liver Unit
Consultant Hepatologist
Queen Mary University of London
London, United Kingdom

Link to full program:
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