Syncytial giant cell hepatitis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C: 2 cases and review of the literature

Human Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1344-1349

  Moreno, Ana ^a   Moreno, Alberto ^b   Pérez Elías, María Jesús ^a   Quereda, Carmen ^a   Fernández Muñoz, Rafael ^b   Antela, Antonio ^a   Moreno, Leonor ^a   Bárcena, Rafael ^b   López San Román, Antonio ^b   Celma, María Luisa ^b   García Martos, María ^b   Moreno, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis; HCV; HIV; Peg IFN ribavirin; Syncytial giant cell hepatitis

Indexed keywords

PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PREDNISONE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; DEATH; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SPAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; GIANT CELLS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; MALE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; RNA, VIRAL; SPAIN;

EID: 33748594971     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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