Iron overload in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: Clinical and histological study

IVONETE SS SILVA, Renata de Mello Perez, MARIA INÊS CANTAGALO, ELIZABETE DANTAS, Cristina Sisti, C. Figueiredo-Mendes, Valéria Pereira Lanzoni, ANTONIO EB SILVA, Maria Lúcia Gomes Ferraz

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology · 2005 · 54 citations · 23 references

Abstract

Iron overload in chronically HCV-infected patients was uncommon and hepatic iron content seemed not to be related to the liver damage process. In the eventuality of iron overload, histochemical liver iron is a useful marker to estimate HIC.

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