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Relationships between hepatic iron content and virologic response in chronic hepatitis C patients treated with interferon and ribavirin.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2005
Rulyak Stephen J, Eng Sue C, Patel Keyur, McHutchison John G, Gordon Stuart C, Kowdley Kris V
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OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to determine the effect of pretreatment hepatic iron concentration (HIC) on response to combination therapy with interferon and ribavirin, and to examine the change in HIC associated with this treatment. METHODS: Patients with hepatitis C who underwent liver biopsy before and after combination therapy were studied retrospectively. HIC was measured from paired pre- and...
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