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Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Loss and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development in Patients With Dual Hepatitis B and C Infection.
Medicine - 1 Mar 2016
Yang Wan-Ting, Wu Li-Wei, Tseng Tai-Chung, Chen Chi-Ling, Yang Hung-Chih, Su Tung-Hung, Wang Chia-Chi, Kuo Stephanie Fang-Tzu, Liu Chen-Hua, Chen Pei-Jer, Chen Ding-Shinn, Liu Chun-Jen, Kao Jia-Horng
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are 2 major causes of chronic viral hepatitis. It is still unclear how HCV coinfection affects HBV replication and clinical outcomes in HBV/HCV coinfected patients.We conducted a longitudinal study, which enrolled 111 patients with HBV/HCV coinfection and 111 propensity score-matched controls with HBV monoinfection. Both groups had comparable baseline...
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