Spontaneous Increases in Alanine Aminotransferase Levels in Asymptomatic Chronic Hepatitis B Virus-Infected Patients

Gastroenterology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1272-1280

  Kumar, Manoj ^a   Chauhan, Ranjit ^b   Gupta, Nitin ^b   Hissar, Syed ^b   Sakhuja, Puja ^b   Sarin, Shiv K ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCES   (India)

^b G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY;

EID: 62949176330     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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