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Predictors of a favorable response to alpha interferon therapy for hepatitis C.
Clinics in liver disease - 1 Nov 1999
Barnes E, Webster G, Whalley S, Dusheiko G
Abstract excerpt
The most consistently identified predictive factors for a response to both IFN-alpha monotherapy and IFN-alpha in combination with ribavirin are a low HCV RNA level, the absence of fibrosis, infection with HCV genotype 2 and 3, and a prolonged duration of treatment. In addition, an early response to IFN-alpha predicts response to IFN-alpha monotherapy but not necessarily to combination therapy. There does not...
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