Big Changes Are Coming in Hepatitis C
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Fred Poordad
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
The story of hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy is about to add one of its biggest chapters. From the serendipitous beginnings in the 1980s when investigators noted that interferon improves liver enzymes in non-A, non-B hepatitis, to the discovery and naming of the hepatitis virus, to the addition of ribavirin, to the pegylation of interferon, and now to the first direct-acting antivirals (DAA), the history of HCV is an intriguing one that continues to unfold. Along with the first DAAs, other important findings have helped explain long-observed differences between various ethnic groups, as well as new predictive information that can be gleaned from some of the observed adverse events.
Curr Gastroenterol Rep (2011) 13:72–77 DOI 10.1007/s11894-010-0153-9 Published online: 10 November 2010
