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Article: Ribavarin and stavudine safe in patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus.
- Article from:
- Hepatitis Weekly
- Article date:
- July 7, 2003
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2003 JUL 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ribavarin and stavudine can be safely combined in HIV/hepatitis C patients, although their efficacy is questionable.
According to published research from France, "a randomized, open-label trial was performed to study virological and intracellular interactions between stavudine and ribavirin in 30 patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV)."
"Patients were randomized to receive either interferon and ribavirin or no treatment for HCV infection for three months," and "intracellular peripheral blood mononuclear cells' stavudine-triphosphate (TP) concentrations were ...