Hello. Ending on 24-week course of treatment for genotype 3a HS, realdironom + ribaverin. Eighteen months ago, make a PCR analysis, it showed a negative result. Can I do the last two injections, because do not want to spend money to buy another set of medicines? Or must be strictly stand exactly 24 weeks? Thank you.

Respond Stanislav Y. Karpov, hepatologist, gastroenterologist, clinical hepatology and gastroenterology Medal can not do. This does not matter. Now it is proved (results of multicenter studies, 2005.) that the rapid disappearance of virus C after 4 weeks of treatment may be limited to 12 weeks. (this applies to genotypes 2 and 3) A similar question: Copegus .... In the last week of treatment received PCR (+), viral load ...