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A treatment algorithm for the management of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in the United States: an update.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 1 Aug 2006
Keeffe Emmet B, Dieterich Douglas T, Han Steven-Huy B, Jacobson Ira M, Martin Paul, Schiff Eugene R, Tobias Hillel, Wright Teresa L
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Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is an important public health problem worldwide and in the United States, with approximately 25% of patients infected as neonates dying prematurely from cirrhosis or liver cancer. A treatment algorithm for CHB previously developed and published by a panel of United States hepatologists was revised based on new developments in the understanding of CHB, the availability of more sensitive...
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