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Abstract
The aim of this study was to detect the role of neutrophil apoptosis as a mechanism of liver cell injury in chronic hepatitis C in order to determine its relation to shortened neutrophil survival in HCV patients, accounting in part for the mechanism of neutropenia.
Thirty patients with chronic HCV infection were selected for this study and divided into two groups, fifteen patients with chronic HCV without neutropenia (Group I) (8 males and 7 females) and fifteen patients with chronic HCV with neutropenia (Group II) (7 males and 8 females). In addition fifteen apparently healthy individuals served as control group (6 males and 9 females).