AASLD guidelines for treatment of chronic hepatitis B
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...Patient selection according to disease activity, HBV genotype, stage of the disease, as well as levels of HBV DNA, HBsAg and HBeAg status can be helpful indicators to predict the individual response probability.(1,56) Early ontreatment predictors are established and can be used as additional tools (e....
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...At present, patients co-infected by HBV and HDV have to be treated with PegIFNa....
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..., ETV, TDF, TAF) is its predictable high long-term antiviral efficacy leading to undetectable HBV DNA levels in the vast majority of compliant patients as well as its favourable safety profile (Table 2).(1,56,57) These drugs can be safely used in any HBV infected patient and represent the only treatment option for several patient subgroups including those with decompensated liver disease, liver transplants, extrahepatic manifestations, acute hepatitis B or severe chronic HBV exacerbation....
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...In addition, preventing HBV transmission in patients with high viremia who do not fulfill the typical criteria for treatment initiation represents further indications in which only NAs should be used.(1,49,50,52,56,57) The rationale for a PegIFNa based approach is to induce longterm immunological control with a finite duration treatment....
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...In HBeAg-negative CHB patients under NA treatment, two multicentre European studies have assessed the safety and efficacy of a 48-week add-on course of PegIFNa.139,140 These two studies demonstrated that HBsAg kinetics were fostered by the addition of PegIFNa, but only a few patients cleared HBsAg....
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...[4] Terrault NA, Bzowej NH, Chang K, Hwang JP, Jonas MM, Murad MH....
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...…inhibited growth of several different tumor cell lines and diminished local and metastatic tumor formation in mice including cancers from lung, liver, breast, and prostate (Abushahba et al., 2010; Lasfar et al., 2016; Li et al., 2008; Numasaki et al., 2007; Sato et al., 2006; Tezuka et al., 2012)....
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...Unlike previous AASLD practice guidelines, this guideline was developed in compliance with the Institute of Medicine standards for trustworthy practice guidelines and uses the Grading of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.(1) Multiple systematic reviews of the literature were conducted to support the recommendations in this practice guideline....
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...summaries following the GRADE approach (Table 7).(1) In this approach, the quality of evidence (i....
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