Chronic hepatitis C and autoimmunity. Good response to immunosuppressive treatment

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 778-780

  Tran, Albert ^a   Benzaken, Sylvia ^b   Yang, Guang ^b   Schneider, Stephane ^b   Doglio, Alain ^b   Rampal, Agnès ^b   Rampal, Patrick ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

anti tissue autoantibodies; autoimmunity; azathioprine; chronic hepatitis C; hepatitis C virus; prednisone; primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; BUFLOMEDIL; GLIBENCLAMIDE; NAFTIDROFURYL; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030988043     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018812113732     Document Type: Article

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