Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C, Genotype 1b with High Viral Load

Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C, Genotype 1b with High Viral Load

Acute pancreatitis, an uncommon side effect of pegylated interferon α (PEG-IFN α) and ribavirin (RBV) combination therapy, has rarely been reported in the English language literature. Here, acute pancreatitis associated with PEG-IFN plus RBV treatment is described in three patients with chronic hepa...

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Main Authors: Kenji Ando, Soo Ryang Kim, Susumu Imoto, Taisuke Nakajima, Keiji Mita, Katsumi Fukuda, Miyuki Taniguchi, Noriko Sasase, Akira Muramatsu, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Masatoshi Kudo, Yoshitake Hayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2009-11-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Subjects:
Acute pancreatitis
Pegylated interferon
Ribavirin
Chronic hepatitis C, high serum hepatitis C viral RNA
Genotype 1b
Interleukin-6
Drug-induced pancreatitis
Tumor necrosis factor-α
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