Causes and management of chronic hepatitis C in treatment experienced patients

 
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2009 (EN)
Causes and management of chronic hepatitis C in treatment experienced patients (EN)
Ilias, A.
Beltsis, A.
Chronic Hepatitis C is a major public health issue, affecting >2% of the worlds population. Combination treatment with pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin is successful in achieving long-term viral suppression in about 50% of patients. The ever-growing population of relapsers and non-responders to PEG-IFN + ribavirin poses a difficult clinical problem. We investigate the causes of treatment failure, whether virus-related (HCV genotype, quasispecies diversity and viral load) or host-related (age, sex, race, fibrosis/cirrhosis, obesity and insulin resistance) and review the results of recently published trials on the treatment of relapsers and non-responders to PEG-IFN + ribavirin, focusing on the prognostic value of week 12 HCV-RNA measurements. (EN)
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Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology
Annals of Gastroenterology
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English
2009-10-05
http://www.annalsgastro.gr/index.php/annalsgastro/article/view/767
Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology (EN)
1792-7463
1108-7471
Annals of Gastroenterology; Volume 22, No 4 (2009); 248 - 254 (EN)



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