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Efficacy and tolerance of a 6-month treatment course of daily interferon-alpha 2a for chronic hepatitis C with cirrhosis. The Australian Hepatitis C Study Group.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Sept 1997
Farrell G, Cooksley W G, Dudley F J, Watson K
Abstract excerpt
Response to interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) treatment in hepatitis C is poorer when cirrhosis is present. In the third Australian multicentre hepatitis C trial, Aushep-3, we examined the efficacy and tolerability of an intensive 24-week course of interferon-alpha 2a in Child-Pugh grade A patients with chronic hepatitis C and cirrhosis. This was an open uncontrolled trial of 4.5 million units (MU) of IFN-alpha 2a...
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