Article
Significant hepatic histopathology in chronic hepatitis B patients with serum ALT less than twice ULN and high HBV-DNA levels in Indonesia.
Journal of digestive diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Lesmana C Rinaldi A, Gani Rino A, Hasan Irsan, Simadibrata Marcellus, Sulaiman Andri S, Pakasi Levina S, Budihusodo Unggul, Krisnuhoni Ening, Lesmana Laurentius A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of significant hepatic histopathology in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ twice upper limit of normal (ULN) and its association with age, HBeAg status, hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA level and viral genotype. METHODS: A prospective study was conducted over a 3-year period in treatment-naive CHB patients with ALT ≤ twice ULN. Patients with a...
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