Article
Clinico-pathological predictive factors of response to interferon therapy in chronic hepatitis C.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Mar 1996
Thavarungkul P, Toriyama K, Kusuda M, Kamito H, Kamito M, Nakayama T, Kato Y, Itakura H
Abstract excerpt
We performed a clinico-pathological study to determine which pre-treatment factors could predict the response to interferon (IFN) therapy in 55 Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C. Responses to the IFN therapy were evaluated as sustained response, relapse and non-response by the presence o...
Topics
- Biopsy
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Administration Schedule
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Interferon alpha-2
- Interferon-alpha
- Japan
- Liver
- Liver Function Tests
- RNA, Viral
- Recombinant Proteins