Approach to the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C who failed to achieve sustained virologic response

Clinics in Liver Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 453-471

  Sethi, Amrita ^a   Shiffman, Mitchell L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; COLCHICINE; CONSENSUS INTERFERON; CPG 10101; IDN 1566; INTERFERON; ISIS 14803; JTC 003; MAXIMINE; MERIMEPODIB; PEGINTERFERON; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RIBAVIRIN; THYMOSIN ALPHA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UT 231B; VALOPICITABINE; VIRAMADINE; VIRUS RNA;

ANEMIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; FIBROSIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; IRRITABILITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AMANTADINE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; LIFE STYLE; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 22044450048     PISSN: 10893261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cld.2005.05.002     Document Type: Review

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