Chronic hepatitis C treatment in a cystic fibrosis patient in the pulmonary pre-transplant stage
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Chronic hepatitis C treatment in a cystic fibrosis patient in the pulmonary pre-transplant stage.
The standard treatment of chronic hepatitis C, pegylated interferon and ribavirin (pegI/R), has many limitations in both effectiveness and secondary effects, which makes it unsuitable or even contraindicated for some patients. In hepatitis C virus-infected cystic fibrosis patients this treatment could increase respiratory infections with subsequent pulmonary function deterioration. On the contr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1130-0108
DOI: 10.4321/s1130-01082010001000004