What Is Hepatitis C?

Lanla Conteh, M.D., clinical associate professor of hepatology and gastroenterology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, in Columbus, OH, gives the nuts and bolts of this virus and how it affects your body.

Hepatitis C is a virus that causes inflammation in many organs in the body, but the most significant organ that it causes inflammation in is the liver. Many of the complications that we see with people who have had hepatitis C, for a long time, tends to be in the liver.