Acute hepatitis C in patients undergoing hemodialysis: Experience with high-dose interferon therapy

Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-84

  Gentile, I ^a   Di Flumeri, G ^a   Scarica, S ^a   Frangiosa, A ^b   Foggia, M ^a   Reynaud, L ^a   Borgia, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Dialysis Center Nephrocare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2A INTERFERON; ERYTHROPOIETIN; VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXUDATIVE RETINITIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HALLUCINATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MONOTHERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SCREENING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HALLUCINATIONS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIREMIA;

EID: 84878750736     PISSN: 03932249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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