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| Santana,Nelma Pereira de; Freitas,Luiz A.R. de; Lyra,André Castro; Paraná,Raymundo; Santana,Genoile; Trepo,Christian; Lyra,Luiz G.C.. |
| Patients with chronic hepatitis C can have variable clinical progression. Hepatic histological alterations appear to be milder in asymptomatic subjects who have persistently normal ALT levels. AIMS: To evaluate the severity of histological liver alterations in blood donors with normal and elevated ALT levels. METHODS: We evaluated volunteer blood donors from the main blood bank of the city of Salvador-Brazil. Those who were anti-HCV positive were invited to participate in the study. Serum ALT and AST levels were measured at two time points, two months apart. Donors were divided into two groups: group I, individuals with ALT > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal in at least one time point and group II, individuals with normal or near normal ALT, at both... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: ALT levels; Liver alterations; HCV; Northeast-Brazil. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702005000200003 |
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