BACKGROUND/AIM In the treatment of hepatitis C, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence advocates use of a combination of interferon alfa and ribavirin for selected patients. Retinopathy is a well recognised side effect of interferon therapy and is characterised by retinal haemorrhages, cotton wool spots, and macular oedema. The aim of this study was to document the incidence and natural...

Hepatitis C is one of the leading causes of liver disease in the United States, affecting more than 4 million individuals. The current treatment regimen involves pegylated interferon in combination with ribavirin. Although antiviral treatment has been associated with a greater than 50% sustained viral response rate, the adverse effects have proven to be detrimental to quality of life and therap...

Interferon is used to treat hepatitis C virus infection and its cutaneous side effects are well known. Recently, interferon-induced sarcoidosis has been reported. We report a new case of sarcoidosis during pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin treatment with an unusual presentation in a woman with previous episodes of erythema nodusum and nodular vasculitis related to HCV.

BACKGROUND Individuals with recent HCV infection may benefit from shortened duration therapy. These studies evaluated the efficacy and safety of response-guided regimens with pegylated interferon-α2a and ribavirin for people with recent HCV infection. METHODS Participants with recent hepatitis C (duration of infection ≤18 months) enrolled in the ATAHC II (pegylated interferon-α2a ± ribavirin)...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is an important public health issue worldwide. It is estimated that over 170 million people are infected with the virus. The present study reports six cases in which patients did not respond to combination therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. However, after the addition of thalidomide to the therapy, the patients presented negative RNA PCR. The use ...

PURPOSE Recent clinical trials have evaluated treatment strategies for chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Our objective was to use these data to examine the cost-effectiveness of treating HCV in an urban cohort of co-infected patients. METHODS A computer-based model, together with available published data, was used t...

we have reviewed the medical records of 40 patients with disseminated (bacille calmette-guerin) bcg from 1996 to 1999 in the immunology department of the children hospital, medical center, tehran university. these patients are divided in to 3 groups: 1. patients who had disseminated (bacille calmette-guerin) bcg after vaccination and their diagnosis was chronic granulomatous disease. 2. patient...

objective(s) previous studies have demonstrated that the nitric oxide (no) dependent death of murine peritoneal macrophages activated in vitro with ifn-g and lps is mediated through apoptosis. in the present study, we investigated the synergistic effect of lps, ifn-g and iron on no production and apoptosis. materials and methods after determination of iron cytotoxicity, the peritoneal macrophag...

background cutaneous leishmaniasis is a health problem in the world. lesions should be treated on cosmetically or functionally important sites, such as the face and hands. cantharidin is a terpenoid compound produced naturally by beetles of meloidae and oedemeridae families. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the effect of cantharidin on cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) lesions and i...