Article
APRI as a predictor of early viral response in chronic hepatitis C patients.
World journal of gastroenterology - 21 Oct 2009
Mata-Marín José A, Fuentes-Allen José L, Gaytán-Martínez Jesús, Manjarrez-Téllez Bulmaro, Chaparro-Sánchez Alberto, Arroyo-Anduiza Carla I
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To evaluate the aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to platelet ratio index (APRI) as a predictive factor of early viral response in chronic hepatitis C naive patients. METHODS: We performed an ambispective case-control study. We enrolled chronic hepatitis C naive patients who were evaluated to start therapy with PEGylated interferon alpha-2b (1.5 mug/kg per week) and ribavirin (> 75 kg: 1200 mg and < 75 kg:...
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