Low dose ribavirin plus high dose interferon for 1 year is effective in the treatment of hepatitis C patients who were initially either relapsers or non-responders to interferon monotherapy

Efficacy of low-dose intermittent interf

Efficacy of low-dose intermittent interferon-alpha monotherapy in patients infected with hepatitis C virus genotype 1b who were predicted or failed to respond to pegylated interferon plus ribavirin combination therapy

✍ Norio Akuta; Fumitaka Suzuki; Yusuke Kawamura; Hiromi Yatsuji; Hitomi Sezaki; Yo 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract The efficacy of interferon (IFN) monotherapy for non‐responders to pegylated interferon (PEG‐IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) combination therapy is still unclear. To evaluate the impact of IFN monotherapy on biochemical response, 200 consecutive patients infected with HCV genotype 1b, who rec