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Efficacy of interferons in treating children with chronic hepatitis C.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Sept 1997
Matsuoka S, Mori K, Nakano O, Yuasa Y, Taguchi Y, Hayabuchi Y, Kuroda Y
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Twenty-two children with chronic hepatitis serologically positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) were treated with interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha). Liver biopsy showed chronic active hepatitis in 13 and chronic persistent hepatitis in 9 patients. A sustained clearance of HCV was observed in 8/22 children 12 months after the administration of IFN-alpha for 26 weeks, associated with normalization of HCV core...
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