Virology (HCV)

Viral Load is Generally Stable in Untreated HCV Patients

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 28th, 1998

Viral load appears to remain relatively stable over prolonged periods in most untreated patients with chronic hepatitis C.

Researcher S.C. Gordon and colleagues sought to determine the stability of viral load over an extended period in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) ("Sequential Serum Hepatitis C Virus RNA Levels Longitudinally Assessed by Branched DNA Signal Amplification," Hepatology, December 1998;28(6):1702-1706).

Sequential serum specimens collected from fourteen non-alcoholic adult patients with chronic HCV between 1990 and 1997 were tested retrospectively for HCV RNA levels by branched DNA assay (Quantiplex HCV RNA 2.0 [Chiron...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1998-12-28)

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