HCV antiviral therapy in injection drug users: Difficult to treat or easy to cure?

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 325-332

  Persico, Marcello ^a   Coppola, Nicola ^b   Rosato, Valerio ^b   Abenavoli, Ludovico ^c   Masarone, Mario ^a   De Luna, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^d UOC Dipendenza ASL SA DS65   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiviral treatment; Chronic hepatitis C; Injection drug users; Sustained virological response

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; ESCITALOPRAM; METHADONE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; RIBAVIRIN; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DRUG CARRIER; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG USE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926190904     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)31271-2     Document Type: Article

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