Article
Preferential virological response to interferon-alpha 2a in patients with chronic hepatitis C infected by virus genotype 3a and exhibiting a low gamma-GT/ALT ratio.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jun 1996
Mihm S, Hartmann H, Fayyazi A, Ramadori G
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus infection causes acute and often chronic hepatitis. Therapy with interferon-alpha has been shown to induce remission of the inflammatory process within the liver and also elimination of the virus. However, only about 50% of treated patients respond in terms of at least a transie...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alanine Transaminase
- Chronic Disease
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Interferon alpha-2
- Interferon-alpha
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Viral
- Recombinant Proteins
- gamma-Glutamyltransferase