Vertebral osteopenia due to bone marrow hyperplasia during interferon-alpha and ribavirin therapy for chronic hepatitis C

Dig Liver Dis. 2003 Oct;35(10):732-4. doi: 10.1016/s1590-8658(03)00418-3.

Abstract

We report the magnetic resonance imaging of a severe, but fully reversible, vertebral osteopenia, due to bone marrow hyperplasia, occurring in a patient with chronic hepatitis C treated with the interferon-alpha/ribavirin combination.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Bone Diseases, Metabolic / etiology*
  • Bone Marrow / pathology*
  • Hepatitis C, Chronic / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Hyperplasia
  • Interferon alpha-2
  • Interferon-alpha / therapeutic use*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Ribavirin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Interferon alpha-2
  • Interferon-alpha
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Ribavirin