Chronic hepatitis e in HIV patients: Rapid progression to cirrhosis and response to oral ribavirin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 465-468

  Neukam, Karin ^a,b   Barreiro, Pablo ^c   Macías, Juan ^a,b   Avellón, Ana ^d   Cifuentes, Celia ^a,b   Martín Carbonero, Luz ^c   Echevarría, José M ^d   Vargas, Julio ^a,b   Soriano, Vicente ^c   Pineda, Juan A ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis E; Cirrhosis; HIV; Immunosuppression; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MIXED INFECTION; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHRONIC HEPATITIS E; CIRRHOSIS; HIV; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; RIBAVIRIN;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880388035     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit224     Document Type: Article

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