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[Treatment optimization in chronic hepatitis C virus infection].
Gastroenterologia y hepatologia - 1 Feb 2010
Fernández Rodríguez Conrado M, Alonso López Sonia
Abstract excerpt
The treatment duration that obtains the optimal risk-benefit ratio in chronic hepatitis C infection is guided by viral kinetic data in weeks 4 and 12. Rapid virological response (RVR) and early virological response (EVR) have high positive and negative predictive value, respectively. Patients with genotype-1, RVR, without significant fibrosis and low baseline viral load (<600,000UI/ml) can receive treatment for...
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