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Significance of immune status, genotype and viral load in the severity of chronic hepatitis C in HIV infected haemophilia patients.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Sept 2002
Delladetsima J, Katsarou O, Touloumi G, Vgenopoulou S, Hatzakis A, Karafoulidou A
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis C is associated with more severe liver disease in patients coinfected with HIV, but the pathogenic mechanism of this more aggressive course is still unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship of HCV genotype, viral load and epidemiological factors with the histological severity of chronic hepatitis in haemophilia patients with HCV/HIV coinfection, taking into consideration the...
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