eritropoyetin

Treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) has improved during the last decade with peg Interferon ribavirin (peg IFN-riba) increasing sustained viral response from 6 to 60%. Even though, there is an increasing number of non responding patients that constitutes up to 50% of HCV in referral centers nowdays. This is an heterogenous group for diverse reasons (failure of response to monotherapies, premature drop outs) some of them biologic (genotype I, high viral load, advanced fibrosis, insulin resistance, genetic predisposicition, pharmacologic metabolism) requiring an individualized approach...