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Type C-chronic hepatitis patients who had autoimmune phenomenon and developed jaundice during interferon therapy.
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2003
Sezaki Hitomi, Arase Yasuji, Tsubota Akihito, Suzuki Yoshiyuki, Kobayashi Masahiro, Saitoh Satoshi, Suzuki Fumitaka, Akuta Norio, Someya Takashi, Ikeda Kenji, Kumada Hiromitsu
Abstract excerpt
Of a total of 2342 patients with type-C chronic hepatitis treated with interferon (IFN) at this hospital, 3 patients developed jaundice during the course of IFN therapy, but all 3 of them exhibited negative conversion of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA following readministration of IFN. All 3 patients were assessed as having "probable autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)" in accordance with the AIH scoring system, indicating...
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