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Review
. 2007 Apr 7;13(13):1897-905.
doi: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i13.1897.

Treatment of hepatitis C virus infection

Kilian Weigand  1 , Wolfgang Stremmel, Jens Encke
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Review

Treatment of hepatitis C virus infection

Kilian Weigand et al. World J Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Acute and chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains a serious health problem worldwide, however, there has been advancement in the treatment of HCV infection due to standard treatment using pegylated interferon and ribavirin. The literature indicates that therapy for HCV is becoming more individualized. In addition to considering genotype and viral RNA levels before treatment, achievement of an early virologic response (EVR) and a rapid virologic response (RVR) is now possible during therapy. Moreover, problem patients, such as non-responders, relapsers, HIV or HBV co-infected patients, patients with liver cirrhosis, and pre- or post-liver transplantation patients are an increasing fraction of the patients requiring treatment. This article reviews the literature regarding standard treatments and problem patients with acute and chronic HCV infection. It also includes discussion on contraindications and side effects of treatment with interferon and ribavirin, as well as new drug development.

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