Selected Hepatitis C Review Articles and References

Alter HJ, Seeff LB. Recovery, persistence, and sequelae in hepatitis C virus infection: a perspective on long-term outcome. Seminars in Liver Disease. 2000;20(1):17-35.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hepatitis A to E. Available at: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/slideset/httoc.htm (accessed Nov. 25, 1996).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendations for prevention and control of hepatitis C virus (HVC) infection and HVC-related chronic disease. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 1998;47:1-39.

Fried MW, Shiffman ML, Reddy KR, et al. Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 2002;347:972-982.

Lauer GM, Walker BD. Hepatitis C virus infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001;345:41-52.

Liang TJ, Reherman B, Seeff LB, Hoofnagle JH. Pathogenesis, natural history, treatment, and prevention of hepatitis C. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;132:296-305.

Manns MP, McHutchison JG, Gordon SC, Rustgi VK, Shiffman M, Reindollar R, Goodman ZD, Koury K, Ling M, Albrecht JK. Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2001;358:958-965.

McHutchison JG, Gordon SC, Schiff ER, Shiffman ML, Lee WM, Rustgi VK, Goodman ZD, Ling M-H, Cort S, Albrecht JK. Interferon alfa-2b alone or in combination with ribavirin as initial treatment for chronic hepatitis C. New England Journal of Medicine. 1998;339(21):1485-1492.

Proceedings of the June 10-12 "Management of Hepatitis C: 2002. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Update." Hepatology. 2002;36(5, part 2).

Zeuzem S, Feinman SV, Rasenack J, Heathcote EJ, Lai M-Y, Gane E, O'Grady J, Reichen J, Diago M, Lin A, Hoffman J, Brunda MJ. Peginterferon alfa-2a in patients with chronic hepatitis C. New England Journal of Medicine. 2000;343:1666-1672.

source: http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/chronichepc/index.htm