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Brian J. McMahon
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 160
Citations - 17672
Brian J. McMahon is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B & Hepatitis B virus. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 160 publications receiving 16835 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian J. McMahon include University of Alaska Fairbanks & Alaska Native Medical Center.
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Chronic hepatitis B
Anna S. Lok,Brian J. McMahon +1 more
TL;DR: These guidelines have been written to assist physicians and other health care providers in the recognition, diagnosis, and management of patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV).
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Chronic hepatitis B: Update 2009
Anna S.F. Lok,Brian J. McMahon +1 more
TL;DR: The 2009 update of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Practice Guidelines for Management of Chronic Hepatitis B is now posted online at www.aasld.org, and the recommendation for first-line oral antiviral medications has been changed to tenofovir or entecavir, and adefovir has been moved to second-line Oral antiviral medication.
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Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Relation of Age to the Clinical Expression of Disease and Subsequent Development of the Carrier State
Brian J. McMahon,Wallace L.M. Alward,David B. Hall,William L. Heyward,Thomas R. Bender,Donald P. Francis,James E. Maynard +6 more
TL;DR: Yupik Eskimos of southwestern Alaska have the highest known prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection of any general population in the United States and the risk of becoming a carrier was inversely related to the age of the patient at the time of infection.
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The natural history of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
TL;DR: Improved methods to identify persons at highest risk of developing HCC or cirrhosis are needed to allow intervention earlier with antiviral therapy in appropriate patients.
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Chronic hepatitis B: update of recommendations.
Anna S.F. Lok,Brian J. McMahon +1 more
TL;DR: These guidelines were developed under the auspices of, and approved by, the Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and were updated in September of 2003.