To determine whether long-term therapy with recombinant interferon-a can improve the course of chronic delta hepatitis, 61 Italian patients with this disease were randomly assigned to receive either interferon-a-2b three times a week (5 MU/m2 for 4 mo and then 3 MU/m2 for another 8 mo) or no treatme
The French experience of treatment of chronic type D hepatitis with a 12-month course of interferon alpha-2B. Results of a randomized controlled trial
✍ Scribed by Jean-Louis Gaudin; Pascal Faure; Hubert Godinot; Françoise Gerard; Christian Trepo
- Book ID
- 114796925
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 921 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0106-9543
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