I have found hepatitis C! In the clinic I was sent only to the biochemical analysis and ultrasound, and the RNA is not! Will there be enough of these tests to accurately determine the status of the virus? Whether they do it?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If you have a positive blood test for antibodies to hepatitis C, you need to take a blood test for HCV RNA if the RNA is found, then determine the amount of virus in blood: a qualitative analysis of blood and genotype. Only the results of these tests, we can judge of the advisability of antiviral treatment. Similar question: How much will it cost analysis of HCV RNA qualitative and quantitative, and genotyping of the virus? (Hepatitis C)