Fulminant hepatitis caused by hepatitis C virus during treatment for multiple sclerosis

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 119-122

  Funaoka, Masato ^a   Kato, Kazumaro ^a   Komatsu, Masafumi ^a   Ono, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hoshino, Takao ^a   Kato, Junji ^a   Kuramitsu, Tomoyuki ^a   Ishii, Tohru ^a   Toyoshima, Itaru ^a   Masamune, Osamu ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant hepatitis; Hepatitis C virus; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOPSY; CYCLOSPORINE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NECROSIS; STEROIDS;

EID: 9044236902     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01211198     Document Type: Article

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