What tests can I learn about "age" of hepatitis C. My friend said that only during the pregnancy she was diagnosed. A pre-pregnancy any tests she did, and they have not shown anything. Perhaps for this virus is necessary specials. analysis? She gave birth to a girl with hepatitis C. Another question: whether her husband to be tested and grafted?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist about "age" of hepatitis C is very difficult to say. Can be indirectly measured by the yardstick of the biochemical blood tests: ALT, AST, GGT, ALP, bilirubin. Helps the result of liver biopsy. My husband always have to do a blood test for antibodies to hepatitis C. Vaccination against hepatitis C do not exist. Similar question: ... being uhudshaetsya.Moya friend to disinfect this virus in Austria ...