Background: Practice guidelines suggest that immunomodulators (IMs) be given prior to infliximab (IFX) in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). The package insert for IFX recommends that maintenance therapy be prescribed for patients who respond to induction therapy. Our aim was to determine the exten
Management of hepatitis C: A national survey of gastroenterologists and hepatologists
โ Scribed by J E Everhart; M Stolar; J H Hoofnagle
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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โฆ Synopsis
Abbreviations: HCV, hepatitis C virus; ALT, alanine aminotransferase. From the Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Branch, Division of Digestive Diseases by 1.8% to 13.8% of respondents. These missing responses and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, were excluded from the analysis, leaving a variable number of Bethesda, MD; and the
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