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Repeated jaundice due to YMDD mutant in a patient with prolonged lamivudine therapy for chronic hepatitis B under prednisolone treatment for Still's disease.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Sept 2002
Joh Riho, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Torii Nobuyuki, Ogawa Miho, Kanai Naoko, Naritomi Takuma, Ishikawa Kayo, Iizuka Aiko, Shizuma Toru, Hashimoto Etsuko, Hayashi Naoaki
Abstract excerpt
A 50-year-old woman patient began receiving lamivudine because of acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B. She also suffered from adult-onset Still's disease and had received prednisolone for 5 years. Lamivudine was effective for treatment of the first flare. Fifteen months after lamivudine treatment was started, a breakthrough due to lamivudine-resistant strain M5521 occurred. Between 10 and 12 months after...
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