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Age above 60 years is not a negative predictive factor for combined antiviral therapy with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin in hepatitis C patients
DOI 10.1055/s-0031-1295851
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Autor:innenP Frei, AK Leucht, U Held, R Kofmehl, M Rau, J Schmitt, T Gerlach, F Negro, M Heim, D Moradpour, A Cerny, JF Dufour, B Müllhaupt, A Geier
ZeitschriftZeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
Ausgabe01/2012
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Aims: Age is frequently discussed as negative host factor to achieve a sustained virological response (SVR) to antiviral hepatitis C therapy. However, elderly patients often show relevant fibrosis as known negative predictive factor, making it difficult to interpret age as an independent predictive factor. Methods: We analyzed data on hepatitis C therapy with PEG-interferon and ribavirin in 516 patients including 66…
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P Frei, AK Leucht, U Held, R Kofmehl, M Rau, J Schmitt, T Gerlach, F Negro, M Heim, D Moradpour, A Cerny, JF Dufour, B Müllhaupt, A Geier (2012) Age above 60 years is not a negative predictive factor for combined antiviral therapy with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin in hepatitis C patients. Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie (01). https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1295851
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