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Inna M Nesina1, Tetyana O Kryuchko1, Olha A Poda1
1Department of Pediatrics No. 2, Poltava State Medical University, Poltava, Ukraine.
Insights
Chronic hepatitis B in children remains a challenge due to complex pathogenesis and insufficient vaccination rates. Current treatments offer limited success, impacting global health strategies for viral hepatitis B.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Hepatology
- Infectious Diseases
Background:
- Chronic hepatitis B in children presents significant medical and social challenges.
- Unresolved issues include pathogenesis, occult infections, viral clearance, and pediatric immune responses.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review current diagnostic and treatment strategies for chronic hepatitis B in children.
- Focuses on international and national guidelines.
Main Methods:
- Review of international and national guidelines.
- Analysis of pathogenesis and disease course.
Main Results:
- Chronic hepatitis B involves a complex interplay between the virus, patient's immune system, and host factors.
- This interaction influences disease phases and antiviral treatment outcomes.
Conclusions:
- Inadequate hepatitis B vaccination in Ukraine fuels ongoing viral hepatitis B spread.
- Antiviral therapies provide functional cure for few; current Ukrainian healthcare challenges may hinder WHO goals.
Background:
Peculiarities of the course of chronic viral hepatitis B in children cause an important medical and social problem of health care, despite the implementation of modern treatment and prevention protocols. Pathogenetic mechanisms of the development and progression of viral hepatitis B infection, the presence of occult poorly diagnosed form, the impossibility of completely eliminating the virus and the specificity of the immune response in children are still not fully solved scientific problems.
Material And Methods:
The aim of this review is to examine current strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis B in children, based on international and national guidelines.
Results:
A detailed analysis of modern guidelines on the course and pathogenesis of viral hepatitis B infection confirms the fact that chronic hepatitis B is characterised by a complex interaction between the immune system of the virus and the patient, whose dynamic balance is not only responsible for the various phases of chronic viral hepatitis B infection but also leads to the result of antiviral treatment.
Conclusion:
Despite the introduction of vaccination of children against hepatitis B, the level of viral hepatitis B vaccination of children in Ukraine remains insufficient, which leads to the further spread of the infection. Currently available antiviral drugs can provide functional treatment of viral hepatitis B infection in a limited number of patients, but today's Ukrainian realities have caused a change in approach to the treatment and monitoring of patients, which may negatively affect the implementation of the key goals of the World Health Organization Global Strategy on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis.
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