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Acute flares in chronic hepatitis B: the natural and unnatural history of an immunologically mediated liver disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 Mar 2001
Perrillo R P
Abstract excerpt
Acute flares in chronic hepatitis B are common and may be caused by a number of identifiable and potentially treatable factors. The common link for many of these exacerbation episodes is a change in the immunologic response to hepatitis B virus (HBV), and this may have no identifiable cause or be triggered by an increase in viral replication or genotypic change. It is important to keep in mind the clinical...
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