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Hepatitis C virus carriers with persistently normal ALT levels: biological peculiarities and update of the natural history of liver disease at 10 years.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 May 2006
Persico M, Perrotta S, Persico E, Terracciano L, Folgori A, Ruggeri L, Nicosia A, Vecchione R, Mura V L, Masarone M, Torella R
Abstract excerpt
Some chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients exhibit persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels (PNAL). Patients with PNAL experience significantly milder disease. In order to understand the differences between CHC patients with elevated ALT levels compared with those with PNAL better, we compared epidemiological, immunological and histological findings, in particular, the value of proliferating...
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