Are elderly patients poor candidates for pegylated interferon plus ribavirin in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C? [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 549-550

  Floreani, Annarosa ^a   Minola, Eliseo ^b   Carderi, Isabella ^a   Ferrara, Francesco ^a   Rizzotto, Erik Rosa ^a   Baldo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Bergamo Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; TRAZODONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIRUS LOAD;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644653236     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00643_4.x     Document Type: Letter

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