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Virologic and histologic features of chronic hepatitis B virus-infected asymptomatic patients with persistently normal ALT.
Gastroenterology - 1 May 2008
Kumar Manoj, Sarin Shiv K, Hissar Syed, Pande Chandana, Sakhuja Puja, Sharma Barjesh Chander, Chauhan Ranjit, Bose Sujoy
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: There is a paucity of data on hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels and histologic lesions in patients with chronic HBV (CHBV) infection and persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels (PNALT). We studied the ALT, HBV DNA levels, and spectrum of histologic lesions in such patients. METHODS: One thousand three hundred eighty-seven incidentally detected asymptomatic hepatitis B surface...
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