Pegylated interferon and ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C

Clinical Medicine Insights: Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 137-150

  Kemp, William ^a   Roberts, Stuart ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C; Peginterferon; Response guided therapy; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA2A INTERFERON; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BOCEPREVIR; DANOPREVIR; DIDANOSINE; ELTROMBOPAG; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 29; MERICITABINE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A INHIBITOR; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5B INHIBITOR; PEGINTERFERON; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A PLUS RIBAVIRIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B PLUS RIBAVIRIN; PEGINTERFERON LAMBDA 1A; PEGINTERFERON PLUS RIBAVIRIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RIBAVIRIN; TELAPREVIR; TMC 435350; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANIPREVIR; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ANEMIA; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CELL KINETICS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COUGHING; CYTOPENIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSGEUSIA; FATIGUE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; METALLIC TASTE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TASTE DISORDER; TERATOGENICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

EID: 79957852779     PISSN: 1179559X     EISSN: 1179559X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CMT.S4015     Document Type: Review

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