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complications of interferon treatment

My daughter was treated with interferon and ribavirin in 1999 for 48 weeks for Hepatitis C.
She is now having problems with ITP and low platelets.  She just had blood work and her
ALT is 418 and her AST is 144.  Could there be any relationship to the current ITP problem and
either Hepatitis C (which she has shown no RNA since 1999) or the interferon treatment?

Since 6/8 her platelets have only been normal once and range from a low of 9,000 to a high of
159,000.  She currently is 41,000.

Gay K
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Here's a case of ITP that happened after interferon treatment for Hep C.  However, it happened shortly after treatment, not years later.

http://www.kma.org.kw/KMJ/Issues/jun2003/KMJ%20June%202003.PDFs/Case%20Reports/Idiopathic%20Thrombocytopenic.pdf
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Were these tests run by a liver specialist (hepatologist) or were they just routine tests down by her family doctor or GI? Sounds like she needs evaluation by a liver specialist who will might run addition tests.
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