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The efficacy of a herbal medicine (Mao-to) in combination with intravenous natural interferon-beta for patients with chronic hepatitis C, genotype 1b and high viral load: a pilot study.
Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology - 1 Jul 2002
Kainuma M, Ogata N, Kogure T, Kohta K, Hattori N, Mitsuma T, Terasawa K
Abstract excerpt
Patients with chronic hepatitis C, with a high serum viral load (> or = 1 Meq/ml) and genotype 1b seem to be resistant to interferon (IFN) therapy. To evaluate the efficacy of a herbal medicine (Mao-to) in combination with natural IFN-beta for the treatment of these patients, eighteen Japanese patients were enrolled in this study. Every patient received 6 million units (MU) of IFN-beta intravenously daily for 8...
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