Treatment of chronic hepatitis C
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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
Treatment for chronic hepatitis C has changed over the past years achieving higher response rates. The combination treatment with pegylated interferon-a and ribavirin is tailored based on the on-treatment virological responses. With this response-guided therapy, the overall sustained virological response rate is about 55%. Many new antivirals are currently under investigation and some will be c...
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At present the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection is based on the combination of pegylated interferon (PEG-INF) and rivabirin (RBV) and basically attempts to eradicate the viral infection (sustained viral response). The pattern depends above all on the viral genotype, hence, patients with genotype 1, 4 and 5 require 48 weeks of treatment and high doses of RBV, while those with gen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hepatology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0168-8278
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2018.04.011