Therapy (HCV)
"Hepatic Iron Contents and Response to Interferon-Alpha in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C: Relationship to Genotypes of Hepatitis C Virus."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 17th, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences, "Recent reports have shown that response to interferon treatment is influenced by hepatic iron contents in patients with chronic hepatitis C. In those reports, however, hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes and serum HCV-RNA levels were not examined. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether hepatic iron contents influence the response to interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C and whether HCV genotypes and serum HCV-RNA levels play a role in this relationship. Among 65 patients with chronic hepatitis C, hepatic iron contents were significantly high in patients with a history...
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