Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in individuals with pre-existing or confounding neuropsychiatric disease

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 328-330

  Van Thiel, David H ^a   Friedlander, Lois ^a   De Maria, Nicola ^a   Molloy, Peter J ^a   Kania, Robert J ^a   Colantoni, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; IFN treatment; Interferon; Psychiatric illness

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON;

ANOREXIA; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIBIDO; MALAISE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTIGO;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031971449     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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