Article
[Study for relapse cases of chronic hepatitis C treated with interferon (IFN) and approach to more successful re-treatment of IFN].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Jul 1994
Iwabuchi S, Yoshida H, Fukui S
Abstract excerpt
It is well known that relapse of hepatitis develops in 30 approximately 40% cases of chronic hepatitis C after treatment of IFN. We assessed the background of those cases and investigated a scheme providing more successful re-treatment of IFN for those relapse cases. Cases developing complete response to re-treatment showed as follows. (1) During first IFN therapy, ALT sustained within normal. (2) Serum HCV-RNA...
Topics
- Adult
- Alanine Transaminase
- Chronic Disease
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Interferons
- Male
- Middle Aged
- RNA, Viral
