Article
Natural course of progression of liver fibrosis in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease type C--a study of 527 patients at one establishment.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jul 2000
Matsumura H, Moriyama M, Goto I, Tanaka N, Okubo H, Arakawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Patients with chronic hepatitis C infection show a gradual progression of fibrosis to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We studied whether the progression of liver fibrosis differed among Japanese subjects who were infected with different hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes. In 527 patients we examined whether there was a relationship between gender, age, history of blood transfusion, interval...
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