Side effects of therapy of hepatitis C and their management

Hepatology

Volumn 36, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages

  Fried, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; INTERFERON; PAROXETINE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RIBAVIRIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ABSCESS; ADDISON DISEASE; ALOPECIA; AMNESIA; ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INJECTION SITE; INSOMNIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RIGOR; SEIZURE; STROKE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TINNITUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 0036830454     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2002.36810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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