Article
Clinical significance of intrahepatic hepatitis C virus levels in patients with chronic HCV infection.
Gut - 1 Apr 1998
Haydon G H, Jarvis L M, Blair C S, Simmonds P, Harrison D J, Simpson K J, Hayes P C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The clinical significance of a single assessment of circulating hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA and its relation to the level of intrahepatic HCV RNA remains unclear. AIMS: To investigate the relation between intrahepatic HCV levels and clinicopathological characteristics of chronic HCV i...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Liver
- Male
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- RNA, Viral
- Statistics, Nonparametric
- Transaminases