Hepatitis and Liver Diseases

Biography

Ligita Jancoriene was graduated from Vilnius University Medical Faculty in 1989 and completed her Residency in Gastroenterology (1993). During her PhD studies she received Clinical Training in Infectious Diseases at Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden (1999-2003) and defended PhD thesis in a field of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology on the Management of Chronic Viral Hepatitis C (2003). She is working at the Department of Infectious diseases of Vilnius University since 1997 and also working as a Specialist of Infectious diseases and Gastroenterology at the Centre of Infectious diseases in the Vilnius University Hospital Santarisiu Klinikos since 1996. Currently, she is a Professor at the Department of Infectious, Chest diseases, Dermatovenerology and Allergology of Vilnius University and Head of the Department for Consultation and Immunoprophylaxis at the Centre of Infectious diseases in the Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Klinikos. She is a Member of the European Association of the Study of the Liver and International Society of Travel Medicine. She is a Board Member of the Lithuanian Society of Infectious Diseases and Baltic Immunoprophylaxis Association. She is a co-author of scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on vaccination and treatment of chronic viral hepatitis C. She was a Principal Investigator in more than 20 clinical trials on viral hepatitis and influenza treatment and vaccination.

Abstract

Abstract : Direct-acting antivirals Ombitasvir/Paritaprevir/Ritonavir+Dasabuvir with or without Ribavirin in HCV genotype 1-infected treatment-naive or treatment-experienced patients with or without cirrhosis