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Effect of antiviral treatment on evolution of liver steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: indirect evidence of a role of hepatitis C virus genotype 3 in steatosis.
Gut - 1 Mar 2004
Castéra L, Hézode C, Roudot-Thoraval F, Lonjon I, Zafrani E-S, Pawlotsky J-M, Dhumeaux D
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Recent studies suggest that liver steatosis in chronic hepatitis C may be the expression of a direct cytopathic effect of hepatitis C virus (HCV), particularly in patients infected with genotype 3. To investigate this hypothesis, we studied the relationship between steatosis evolution and HCV clearance after antiviral treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C and paired liver biopsies....
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