Poor Sustained Virological Response in a Multicenter Real-Life Cohort of Chronic Hepatitis C Patients Treated with Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin plus Telaprevir or Boceprevir

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1045-1051

  Vo, Kevin P ^a   Vutien, Philip ^a   Akiyama, Matthew J ^e   Vu, Vinh D ^a   Ha, Nghiem B ^a   Piotrowski, Joy I ^b   Wantuck, James ^a   Roytman, Marina M ^b   Tsai, Naoky ^b   Cheung, Ramsey ^c   Li, Jiayi ^d   Nguyen, Mindie H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BOC; Effectiveness; HCV; PEG IFN; Routine practice; TVR

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INTERFERON; N-(3-AMINO-1-(CYCLOBUTYLMETHYL)-2,3-DIOXOPROPYL)-3-(2-((((1,1-DIMETHYLETHYL)AMINO)CARBONYL)AMINO)-3,3-DIMETHYL-1-OXOBUTYL)-6,6-DIMETHYL-3-AZABICYCLO(3.1.0)HEXAN-2-CARBOXAMIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROLINE; RIBAVIRIN; TELAPREVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROLINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934267879     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-015-3621-0     Document Type: Article

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