Dr. Camilla Graham
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Boston, MA
29 years experience female
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Division of Infectious Disease
Boston, MA
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts
Fallon Community Health Plan
Harvard Pilgim Health Care
MassHealth
Medicare
TUFTS Health Plan
Neighborhood Health Plan
Harvard University Health Services
UnitedHealthcare
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Boston, MA
About
Bio
I am an Infectious Disease doctor. I provide care for patients with hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and HIV, as well as general ID care (chronic urinary or sinus infections, fever of unknown origin, etc). I am also interested in Baby Boomers who don't know they have hepatitis C and new drugs for HCV.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
214 Answers
19 Agrees
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A 27-year-old member asked:
Dr. Camilla Grahamanswered
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
3-6 months with RNA: Mothers pass on their antibodies to babies, so you can't test for hepatitis c antibody in babies until about 18 months. You have to test for the hepat... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Avoid alcohol: The most important change you can make is to eliminate alcohol from your life. Think of alcohol as adding fuel to the fire of hcv. Next, be careful ab... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Exposure, not infect: A positive antibody result against hepatitis c with a high scr most likely represents a true prior exposure to hcv. However, even people with high ant... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
No alcohol: Avoid any alcohol and avoid getting coinfected with hiv. The immune system works to control the virus so avoiding stress, eating healthy and no tobacc... Read More
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A member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Theoretically, yes: If someone has open sores and gets a patient's blood or certain other body fluids in those sores, there is a possibility that hiv, hepatitis b or hep... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Very unlikely: Hepatitis c is not efficiently spread via sex, unlike HIV or hepatitis b. It is more likely when there has been local trauma and bleeding, even if a v... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
What you ate?: The most common reason for stools that look like this in young people is something that they ate. Beets are a big offender, as is food colored red. Ir... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Unfortunately, yes: Both hepatitis b and c can survive for days, and perhaps even over a week, outside the body. This is why ever sharing any paraphernalia, including coo... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Viral hepatitis?: Both hepatitis b and hepatitis c can be causes. Excessive alcohol consumption can also do this. "fatty liver" is often associated with metabolic syndr... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Not unsafe: Good for you for being concerned about alcohol. Limiting alcohol consumption is important to protect your liver, especially if you have a viral hepati... Read More
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A member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
More info needed: You have a lot of liver scarring. The first questions are whether you are a candidate for curative hepatitis c treatment and whether you need it now o... Read More
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Yes: The cdc recommends that everyone born between 1945-1965 get a one-time hepatitis c antibody test. This is because 1 out of 23 men in this birth cohort... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Acute or chronic?: Acute HIV can look like a lingering flu-like syndrome, with fevers, chills, night sweats, sore throat, fatigue, rash, abdominal pain or nausea, etc. T... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Antibody and RNA?: Most likely, what you are asking is why an hcv antibody test can be positive, while the follow up hcv RNA (viral load) test is negative. About 25% of... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Antivirals: The most commonly used antiviral medications against hepatitis b are Entecavir and tenofovir. Both are well tolerated and do a great job stopping the ... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Probably not: Hiv transmission is rare with oral body fluids unless a large amount enters open wounds like bleeding gums. But is is probably better not to share suc... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Yes, lots: Not to make you paranoid, but there are countless things that cause disease. Many factors interact with our bodies in a way that can lead to disease. ... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Depends: Massive diarrhea can lead to electrolyte imbalance in less than 24 hours. Cholera is an example of this. If you have diarrhea it is critical to replac... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
In this order:: If the hepatitis c antibody is positive, was the hcv RNA (viral load) positive? If yes, what is the hcv genotype?Is there any evidence of cirrhosis (f... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Blood borne virus: Hepatitis c is a virus that infects the liver and causes inflammation and scarring. Over many years, people can get severe scarring that leads to cirr... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Yes and yes: Hepatitis c is 4 to 5 times more common than HIV and more people in the us die of hepatitis c than hiv. However, unlike hiv, hepatitis c is curable. E... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Prob rare: Hepatitis c, especially, can exist on environmental surfaces for over a week, so objects that contain very small amounts of blood could theoretically ... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
What happened?: If HIV is in someone else's blood and it come into contact with your blood or immune cells, there is a risk of HIV infection. It is unclear to me what... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Clindamycin: There are other antibiotics to use, such as clindamycin, for group a streptococcus throat infections. I am concerned about how many antibiotics you ar... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
4-5 million: At least 4 -5 million people have been exposed to hepatitis c in the us. The cdc estimates that about 75% of these people were born between 1945 and 1... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Depends: About 25% of people who have positive hcv antibody tests will have negative hcv viral load (RNA) tests. This means they are not chronically infected. ... Read More
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Repeat testing: It can take 3 - 6 months for the HIV antibody test to become positive if people have been exposed. We usually repeat at 6 months to make sure. It is v... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Unlikely: Ibuprofen very rarely causes liver damage, although you need to be extra careful to avoid alcohol (alcohol also accelerates liver damage with hcv). I... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Interferon+Ribavirin: Ifn+rbv are still the backbone of all hcv regimens. In genotype 1 hcv, we add a protease inhibitor (telaprevir or boceprevir). Treatment is 24 to 48 w... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
It depends: The over-the-counter HIV tests can have false positive results, but 40% is high. The antibody tests need to be confirmed by a western blot (looks mor... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Yes: About 5% of the us population has a genetic background that makes them unable to respond to the hepatitis b vaccine. If you work in a high risk occupa... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Absolutely: People who share needles, syringes, cookers, cottons, water, etc have a risk of sharing HIV as well as hepatitis b and c. Do not share anything (works... Read More
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A 45-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Difficult to say: Some people have low blood pressure and it has nothing to do with hepatitis c. They need to be evaluated for other causes. People who are on certain ... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Autoimmune: No test is perfect. Every test has a false positive and false negative rate. Any condition that leads to lots of antibody production, like autoimmune ... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Try one more dose: Some people cannot tolerate certain antibiotics. If he is unable to keep down his second dose, the prescribing clinician needs to be informed immediat... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Lots in development: Right now standard of care is pegylated interferon plus Ribavirin for all genotypes, and adding a protease inhibitor (either telaprevir or boceprevir)... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Yes in part: The tests that detect actual HIV virus, such a the HIV viral load (pcr), will likely be positive 5 weeks after an exposure that results in transmissio... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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25% chance: If for some reason, you did not want treatment for hcv for the next 25 years as treatment got easier and more effective at curing the infection, you w... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Likely not HIV: If your HIV test is negative at least six months after a potential exposure, you were most likely not infected with hiv. Kep using safer sex precautio... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
1992: The cdc recommends that anyone who had a blood transfusion before 1992 should be tested for hepatitis c. In the 1970s through 1980s tens of thousands ... Read More
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A 57-year-old male asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Probably cleared: The hcv viral load tests are not fda approved to confirm active infection, although this is how most doctors use it. If a repeat viral load in around ... Read More
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Get tested: Sex with someone who engages in commercial sex work carries an increased risk of exposure to hiv, especially if you did not use a condom during the en... Read More
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It depends: The dose is usually no more than 20 mg a day in people whose liver isn't working well due to cirrhosis. If neksium is being given for occasional heart... Read More
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It depends: Please encourage your friend to see someone with experience taking care of people with hepatitis c. She needs your support. Women are less likely to p... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Use applicator: This does sound like a yeast infection, especially if you also have a thick white discharge. Clotrimazole that is designed for vaginal yeast infection... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Yes: The lab uses a signal to cut off ratio (scr) to try to determine whether a signal is "noise" or real. Your scr is very low, and the lab accurately def... Read More
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease 29 years experience
Sinusitis: Sinusitis can start with allergies, viral, bacterial, or rarely other types of infections. Dead white blood cells, mucus, and other matter accumulates... Read More
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A 41-year-old male asked:
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Need new treatment: So you are at week 47 of a 48 week course of treatment for hcv genotype 4 infection and your virus has never gone below the undetectable level.
The g... Read More
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Paper tape: "paper tape" can be found in a drug store, and it tends to be less allergenic than band-aids. Use cotton gauze to cover the wound, and paper tape to k... Read More
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Not a cold: Usual viral infections, like a cold, don't cause sore throats to last 2 months. The sores are not described, but viruses like herpes simplex can somet... Read More
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Feb 11, 2013
Very Accurate. Great responses.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Graham is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Graham is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Biopsy 3 weeks ago, turns out I have Sarcoidosis in hilar/med./ap window nodes. Lung scope showed no issues. Watch and wait. Thanks 4 help!
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This saved my life. Thank You! In ER. I have an infected shunt and need emerg. surg. To externalize it so ID can identify the bacteria.3 weeks in the ICU they say. Thanks!
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This saved my life. Thank You! My wife she has HBV > 170 million UI/ml how can I do? I don't have enough $ to treatment her !! What medicine she can get? Plz help me plz !
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Medical College of Pennsylvania, PA
Graduated 1994MD
Residency
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
Awards
Rising Star, Healthcare Businesswomen's Association
Top Doctor, Third Place, Boston, MA - Winter
2013
Top Infectious Disease Specialist , First Place, Massachusetts - Winter
2013
Affiliations
AASLD
IDSA
National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable
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