Chronic hepatitis B
Predictors of HBeAg status and hepatitis B viraemia in HIV infected patients with chronic hepatitis B in the HAART era in Brazil
... of chronic hepatitis B in HIV-infected individuals under highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) receiving at least one of the two drugs that also affect HBV (TDF and ...
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Identification and Characterization of Clevudine-Resistant Mutants of Hepatitis B Virus Isolated from Chronic Hepatitis B Patients
... four chronic hepatitis B patients with viral BT during CLV treatment, we isolated HBV DNA from the patients’ sera prior to CLV therapy and at the time of viral ...
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Original Article Beta2-Glycoprotein I in Hepatitis B virus infection patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic hepatitis B and acute hepatitis B
... Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a small DNA virus belongs to hepadnaviridae family ...clinic, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is always associated with a high risk of hepatocel- lular carcinoma ...
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Coexistence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBs Ag) and Anti-HBs Antibodies in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Carriers: Influence of “a” Determinant Variants
... The envelope gene of HBV has three open reading frames (ORF), PreS1, PreS2, and S, which code for three proteins, the small, middle, and large HBs Ag, translated from distinct mRNAs. Common to all three proteins, the “a” ...
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Original Article Association between APOBEC3B deletion polymorphism and susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B infection and outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma in Chinese Han population
... Apolipoprotein B MRNA Editing Enzyme, Catalytic Polypeptide-Like 3B (APOBEC3B, A3B) deletion with susceptibility to chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection and occurrence, prog- nosis of HCC ...
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HBsAg as an important predictor of HBeAg seroconversion following antiviral treatment for HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B patients
... The twenty HBeAg-positive CHB patients were classi- fied into SC (n = 9) or non-SC (n = 11) groups, depend- ing on whether they had undergone SC by week 72 of TDF treatment. Subjects with CHB fulfilled the defini- tions ...
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Original Article Clinical prognosis of chronic hepatitis B patients with concurrent HBeAg/Anti-HBe detection and possible mechanism
... of chronic hepatitis B (CHB), the loss of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and the production of antibody to HBeAg (Anti- HBe) (HBeAg seroconversion) is generally asso- ciated with ...
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Seroepidemiology of chronic hepatitis B and C in the French Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe
... of chronic hepa- titis B and C to have been performed in the general population of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, without any distinctions being made with respect to age, gender or blood donor ...
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Managing chronic hepatitis B: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people living with chronic hepatitis B in Australia
... Chronic hepatitis B is a complex condition mostly affecting people who may have understandings of the body that differ from those of the western medical ...of chronic hepatitis B ...
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Epidemiology of acute and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Norway, 1992 2009
... for hepatitis B virus ...of hepatitis B in Norway, during the years 1992-2009 in order to assess the validity of current risk groups and recommend preventive ...and chronic ...
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PREVALENCE OF HBeAg IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS B PATIENTS IN KHARTOUM, SUDAN
... HBV. Hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) is derived from the translation product of the precore and core ...acute hepatitis B. Nevertheless, hepatitis B remains an important cause of ...
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Chronic hepatitis B genotype E in African migrants: response to nucleos(t)ide treatment in real clinical practice
... In our study we have included 28 treatment-naive pa- tients and have observed that at 12 months of treatment with NA, 89.4% of HBeAg-negative and 80% of HBeAg-positive patients negativize the viral load. This proportion ...
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Development of a novel IGRA assay to test T cell responsiveness to HBV antigens in whole blood of chronic Hepatitis B patients
... resolved hepatitis B patients (109 ± 27 and 309 ± 143 pg/ml, n = 3) that we measured for exploratory reasons compared to all other groups, whereas the IL2 response to HBsAg was negligible in con- trast to ...
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Known and Emerging Risk Factors
... While chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepati- tis C virus (HCV) infections represent the leading risk factors worldwide, the spreading of metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, obesity and ...
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Determination of risk factors for hepatitis B and C in male patients suffering from chronic hepatitis
... from chronic hepatitis B or C liver disease and coming for treatment and follow-up to the Gastroenterology and Hepatology unit of Pakistan Medical Research Centre, Jin- nah Postgraduate Medical ...
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Elevated expression of serum soluble ST2 in clinical relapse after stopping long term Nucleos(t)ide analogue therapy for chronic hepatitis B
... Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes acute and chronic hepatitis and remains a public health problem across the ...in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients [2, ...active ...
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Extracellular Hepatitis B Virus RNAs Are Heterogeneous in Length and Circulate as Capsid-Antibody Complexes in Addition to Virions in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients
... Although extracellular HBV RNA was detected in both in vitro cell culture systems and in clinical serum samples, its origin and composition remain controversial. It was proposed that extracellular HBV RNA represents ...
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Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B infection among mothers and children with hepatitis B infected mother in upper Dolpa, Nepal
... the chronic hepatitis B infection is often asymp- tomatic, even in advanced diseased stage; there was no selection bias as the all participants who attended the camps were enumerated; and researchers ...
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Chronic hepatitis B in Korean Americans: decreased prevalence and poor linkage to care
... of chronic hepatitis B infection for Koreans in South Korea has been also reported to be as high as 8 % until recent years [16, ...of hepatitis B over the past three ...community-based ...
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Assessment of Educational Needs and Quality of Life of Chronic Hepatitis Patients
... the future development of intervention programs on patient education. The results may serve as reference for nurses to ensure an excellent management of patients’ discomfort and their self-care ability. Patient education ...
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