Impact of added fluvastatin to standard-of-care treatment on sustained virological response in Naïve chronic hepatitis C patients infected with genotypes 1 and 3

Intervirology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-30

  Kurincic, Tanja Selic ^a   Lesnicar, Gorazd ^a   Poljak, Mario ^b   Volkar, Jelka Meglic ^c   Rajter, Mojca ^c   Prah, Janja ^c   Baklan, Zvonko ^d   Kotar, Tadeja ^c   Maticic, Mojca ^c  

^a General Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C; Fluvastatin; Pegylated interferon ; Ribavirin; Sustained virological response

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FLUINDOSTATIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VIRUS RNA; ERYTHROPOIETIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A PLUS RIBAVIRIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B PLUS RIBAVIRIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; STEATOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 1; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 3; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SUSTAINED VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 3;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDOLES; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84889817131     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: 14230100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000354541     Document Type: Article

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