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Official Journal of Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases
e-ISSN 1735-3408
p-ISSN 1735-143X
Attempted suicide in two patients with chronic hepatitis C while being treated with Interferon-alpha
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1Baqiyatallah Hospital Tehran Hepatitis Center, alavian@thc.ir, IR-Iran
2Methodology and statistics consultant, Tehran
*Corresponding Author: Baqiyatallah Hospital Tehran Hepatitis Center, alavian@thc.ir, IR-Iran. Tel: +98 21 81264070. Fax: +98 21 81264070. Email: alavian@thc.ir
How to Cite:Alavian S, Hajarizadeh B. Attempted suicide in two patients with chronic hepatitis C while being treated with Interferon-alpha. Hepat Mon. 2004;4(6):. doi:
Abstract
A 36-years old man was treated with Peg-interferon (PEGASYS) and ribavirin to control of Hepatitis C experienced a suicide attempt and was admitted to hospital. Another case treated by PDferon B® attempted to suicide by consumption more than 100 tablet of Fluxetin. Fortunately their family rescued them. Both of them had a history of depression and interferon-alpha deepened it. These are the first reports of suicide attempt after treatment with PEGASYS and PDferon B® from Iran.
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© 2004, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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