## Treatment of chronic hepatitis C with Interferon (IFN) ␣2b monotherapy results in 10% to 15% sustained virological response (SVR). Combining IFN with ribavirin increases this response. In this analysis, using the Markov model, 6 treatment strategies for chronic hepatitis C (previously untreated
Interferon-α therapy combined with nonsteroid antiinflammatory drugs for treatment of chronic viral hepatitis?
✍ Scribed by Pietro Andreone; Carmela Cursaro; Giovanni Gasbarrini
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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