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| Costa,Luciano Bello; Ferraz,Maria Lucia Gomes; Perez,Renata M.; Ferreira,Adalgisa S.; Matos,Carla Adriana L.; Lanzoni,Valéria P.; Silva,Antônio Eduardo. |
| There is increasing interest in the identification of factors associated with liver disease progression in patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). We assessed host-related factors associated with a histologically advanced stage of this disease and determined the rate of liver fibrosis progression in HCV-infected patients. We included patients submitted to liver biopsy, who were anti-HCV and HCV RNA positive, who showed a parenteral risk factor (blood transfusion or intravenous drug use), and who gave information about alcohol consumption.Patients were divided into two groups for analysis: group 1 - grades 0 to 2; group 2 - grades 3 to 4. The groups were compared in terms of sex, age at the time of infection, estimated duration of infection and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Hepatitis C virus; Liver fibrosis; Patients. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702002000500002 |
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