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Early and accurate prediction of Peg-IFNs/ribavirin therapy outcome in the individual patient with chronic hepatitis C by modeling the dynamics of the infected cells.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Aug 2008
Colombatto P, Ciccorossi P, Maina A M, Civitano L, Oliveri F, Coco B, Romagnoli V, Bonino F, Brunetto M R
Abstract excerpt
A novel biomathematical model that analyzes the combined alanine transaminase (ALT) and viral-load kinetics during the first month of pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) therapy was successfully applied in 90 of 97 (93%) chronic hepatitis C patients in order to compute the number of infected cells at the end of therapy (I(eot)). The I(eot) indices were lower in sustained virological responders...
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