Aplastic anemia and severe pancytopenia during treatment with peg-interferon, ribavirin and telaprevir for chronic hepatitis C

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5421-5426

  Lens, Sabela ^a   Calleja, Jose L ^b   Campillo, Ana ^c   Carrión, Jose A ^d   Broquetas, Teresa ^d   Perello, Christie ^b   De La Revilla, Juan ^b   Mariño, Zoe ^a   Londoño, María Carlota ^a   Sánchez Tapias, Jose M ^a   Urbano Ispizua, Álvaro ^a   Forns, Xavier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^c Anatomía Patológica del Hospital Reina Sofía de Tudela   (Bulgaria)

^d HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aplastic anemia; Hepatitis C; Interferon; Protease inhibitors; Telaprevir

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CLOXACILLIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS; TELAPREVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INTERFERON; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CHILL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPISTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL CONDITION; GENOTYPE; HEART ARREST; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; ODYNOPHAGIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; ZYGOMYCOSIS; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; FATALITY; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928990817     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i17.5421     Document Type: Article

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