| Literature DB >> 17708618 |
Takayuki Kogure1, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Koji Fukushima, Futoshi Nagasaki, Jun Inoue, Eiji Kakazu, Yasunori Matsuda, Osamu Kido, Yu Nakagome, Osamu Kimura, Noriyuki Obara, Yuta Wakui, Takao Iwasaki, Tooru Shimosegawa.
Abstract
A 27-year-old Caucasian female with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection treated with interferon (IFN) who developed severe autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is described. The infecting viral strain was of genotype Ib and the pre-treatment HCV viral load was at a high level. The patient was treated with pegylated IFN-alpha 2b and ribavirin, and her HCV-RNA became negative at wk 12, but after that she developed fulminant hepatic failure. The patient recovered after steroid pulse therapy consisting of methylprednisolone 1000 mg/d for three days which was administered twice. A needle liver biopsy revealed the typical pathological findings of AIH.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17708618 PMCID: PMC4250871 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i32.4394
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World J Gastroenterol ISSN: 1007-9327 Impact factor: 5.742