Article
Predicting interferon therapy efficacy from hepatitis C virus genotype and RNA titer.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 May 1994
Mita E, Hayashi N, Hagiwara H, Ueda K, Kanazawa Y, Kasahara A, Fusamoto H, Kamada T
Abstract excerpt
We classified 53 Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C who were treated with natural interferon-alpha into genotypes and also tested the amounts of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA. The rate of the long-term complete response group, whose alanine aminotransferase levels remained within the normal...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Interferon-alpha
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- RNA, Viral
