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Factors associated with severity and disease progression in chronic hepatitis C.
Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2000
Tassopoulos N C, Papatheodoridis G V, Katsoulidou A, Delladetsima J K, Sypsa V, Touloumi G, Nikandros M, Hatzakis A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Chronic hepatitis C appears to have a highly variable natural course with 20% of patients developing cirrhosis within 20 years, while the majority of them run a relatively mild course. We studied the relationships of epidemiological, biochemical and virological features with histological severity (grade) and liver disease progression (stage). METHODOLOGY: Liver histology, serum HCV RNA level and...
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