Article
Management of hepatitis C in the hemophilia patient.
The American journal of medicine - 27 Dec 1999
Fried M W
Abstract excerpt
Patients with hemophilia who received clotting factor concentrates before the availability of heat-treated factors in the mid-1980s were almost universally infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Until recently, the clinical impact of chronic hepatitis C was largely overshadowed by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in this risk group. With recent advances in treating HIV infection, there is greater...
Topics
- Antiviral Agents
- Biopsy, Needle
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- Hemophilia A
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Interferon-alpha
- Liver
- Liver Neoplasms
