The effects of drug abuse on the natural history and progression of chronic active and chronic persistent hepatitis.
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Forty-six of 139 first visit patients who attended the Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre in the Charitable infirmary with a problem of intravenous drug abuse, between May 1st 1979 and December 31st 1979, had liver biopsies carried out. Eight of these patients had chronic active hepatitis; these and 4 other abusers with chronic active, hepatitis who were attending the Department of Gastroenterology, were included in this study. They were compared with the 10 non drug abusing patients with chronic active hepatitis who were attending the Department of Gastroenterology. All patients with chronic active hepatitis were on conventional therapy.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Irish journal of medical science
دوره 150 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981