Fulminant hepatic failure in a case of autoimmune hepatitis in hepatitis C during peg-inferferon-alpha 2b plus ribavirin treatment

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 4394-4397

  Kogure, Takayuki ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fukushima, Koji ^a   Nagasaki, Futoshi ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a   Kakazu, Eiji ^a   Matsuda, Yasunori ^a   Kido, Osamu ^a   Nakagome, Yu ^a   Kimura, Osamu ^a   Obara, Noriyuki ^a   Wakui, Yuta ^a   Iwasaki, Takao ^a   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Anti viral therapy A; Autoimmune hepatitis; Hepatitis C virus; Interferon; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEOMINOPHAGEN C; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; STEROID THERAPY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 34548479023     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i32.4394     Document Type: Article

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