Alcoholic hepatitis and concomitant hepatitis C virus infection

Table 1 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies and hepatitis C virus-RNA in patients with alcoholic hepatitis

Ref.	Sample size	HCV antibodies	HCVRNA	Liver biopsy
Parés et al[10]	14	21.4%	NA	100%
Nishiguchi et al[11]	20	40%	15%	100%
Nalpas et al[12]	26	35.4%	30%	69.2%
Bode et al[13]	15	6.70%	NA	100%
Rosman et al[14]	5	20%	NA	100%
Sata et al[15]	27	37%	22%	100%
Tanaka et al[16]	24	25%	8.3%	100%
Pandya et al[17]	4129	24.9%	NA	NA
Singal et al[18]	76	38.1%	NA	9%
Novo-Veleiro et al[19]	6	0%	NA	100

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; NA: Not available.