[Interpretations of EASL 2017 clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection]
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1Department of Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; Institute for Viral Hepatitis of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China.
Abstract:
The European Association for the Study of the Liver recently released the updated Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection at the International Liver Congress(TM) 2017 in Amsterdam. The latest clinical practice guideline integrated the latest scientific advances on diagnosis and therapy of hepatitis B, thereby providing optimize the management of patients with either acute or chronic HBV. The latest clinical practice guideline includes new definitions of disease phases, expanded indications for initiating treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, new stopping rules for antiviral therapy. Future treatment strategies to achieve 'cure' of disease and new biomarkers are discussed.
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