Ability of treatment week 12 viral response to predict long-term outcome in genotype 1 hepatitis C virus/HIV coinfected patients

AIDS

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 975-982

  Van Den Eynde, Eva ^a   Tiraboschi, Juan Manuel ^b   Tural, Cristina ^c   Solà, Ricard ^d   Mira, José Antonio ^e   Podzamczer, Daniel ^b   Jou, Antoni ^c   Cañete, Nuria ^d   Pineda, Juan Antonio ^e   Pahissa, Albert ^a   Crespo, Manuel ^a,f  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c HIV Clinical Unit   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Early viral relapse; Genotype 1; Hepatitis C virus; HIV; Viral kinetics

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR; DIDANOSINE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; MALE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; RNA, VIRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77950945642     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283350f7c     Document Type: Article

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