Pretreatment viral load and response to prolonged interferon-alpha course for chronic hepatitis C.

doi:10.1016/0168-8278(95)80109-x

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Pretreatment viral load and response to prolonged interferon-alpha course for chronic hepatitis C.

Journal of hepatology - 1 Apr 1995

Yuki N, Hayashi N, Kasahara A, Hagiwara H, Takehara T, Oshita M, Katayama K, Fusamoto H, Kamada T

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BACKGROUND/AIMS: We investigated the clinical benefit of long-term interferon therapy in chronic hepatitis C in relation to the pretreatment viral load and genotypes. METHODS: Chronic hepatitis C patients were randomly assigned to receive 28-week (n = 45) or 52-week (n = 43) courses of interferon...

Topics

Adult
Base Sequence
Chronic Disease
Female
Genotype
Hepacivirus
Hepatitis C
Humans
Interferon-alpha
Male
Middle Aged
Molecular Probes
Molecular Sequence Data
RNA, Viral
Time Factors

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