Hepatitis B virus treatment: Which patients should be treated with nucleos(t)ide analogue?

Clinical Liver Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-23

  Viganò, Mauro ^a   Lampertico, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; ENTECAVIR; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; PEGINTERFERON; TELBIVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; VIRUS DNA; NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEROCONVERSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG COST; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84937412389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cld.161     Document Type: Review

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