Article
Serum and liver HCV RNA levels in patients with chronic hepatitis C: correlation with clinical and histological features.
Gut - 1 Jun 1998
De Moliner L, Pontisso P, De Salvo G L, Cavalletto L, Chemello L, Alberti A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Liver disease in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection ranges from minimal lesions to liver cirrhosis, eventually evolving to hepatocellular carcinoma. Whether and how HCV determines the different clinical and histological manifestations of the disease is not fully understood. AIM...
Topics
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Liver
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Viral
- Viral Load