drugset / Trial / NCT00917358

Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a for Dialysis Patients With Acute Hepatitis C

NCT00917358

Non-randomizedSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

Interferon-based monotherapy has been considered effective to treat acute hepatitis C in ordinary patients. However, the efficacy of this treatment has not been evaluated in prospective interventional studies for dialysis patients. The aim of the study is the evaluate the efficacy of peginterferon alfa-2a monotherapy for 24 weeks in this special clinical setting, and concomitantly evaluate retrospectively the dialysis patients with acute hepatitis C who did not receive intervention as the reference.

Timeline

Start
2005-07
Primary completion
2008-06
Completion
2008-06

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Peginterferon alfa-2a Protein / enzyme biologic 135 ug