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What to do when standard therapy fails.
Forum (Genoa, Italy) - 1 Jan 2000
Buti M, Esteban R
Abstract excerpt
An important group of patients with chronic hepatitis C do not respond to interferon (IFN) therapy. Compared with untreated patients with chronic hepatitis C, non-responders have a higher percentage of cirrhosis, are more frequently infected by genotype 1 and usually have a viral load above 2 x 106 copies/ml. Also, patients with cirrhosis have lower life expectancy and higher risk of clinical complications, and...
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