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[Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as a possible sequelae of treatment of viral hepatitis with interferon-alpha] .
Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceske lekarske spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne - 1 Nov 2000
Petrovicová A
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Treatment of chronic hepatitis with interferon-alpha is an increasingly used successful therapeutic procedure. In the literature in recent years data accumulated on side-effects of interferon therapy, among which relatively frequently insulin dependent diabetes is mentioned. Interferon-alpha enhances the expression of molecules of the histocompatible complex I which may cause in genetically predisposed subjects...
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