Year 2021 / Volume 113 / Number 5
Letter
Ribavirin monotherapy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis E in an immunosuppressed patient

386-387

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2020.7266/2020

Katherine Milagros Gómez Torres, Matías Estévez Escobar, Ana Belén Lozano Serrano,

Abstract
We herein report the case of a 54-year-old male patient with a human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infection, usually with low viral loads and CD4 cells < 200-100/mm3 due to thymic exhaustion. He was referred to our clinic because of hypertransaminasemia and cholestasis of a duration of 58 months and liver cirrhosis on FibroScan® without esophageal varices. Nonspecific manifestations included weight loss. Liver disease stigmata and generalized amyotrophy were also present.
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Publication history

Received: 14/05/2020

Accepted: 24/06/2020

Online First: 23/11/2020

Published: 10/05/2021

Article revision time: 34 days

Article Online First time: 193 days

Article editing time: 361 days


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