Simplifying Treatment Criteria in Chronic Hepatitis B: Reducing Barriers to Elimination.

Robert J WongHarvey W KaufmanJustin K NilesHema KapoorRobert G Gish

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

A large proportion of CHB patients not meeting established treatment criteria have significant fibrosis. Simplifying criteria to treat all patients with detectable HBV DNA will reduce complexity and heterogeneity in assessing treatment eligibility, improving treatment rates and progress towards HBV elimination.

Keyphrases

hepatitis b virus
end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
single cell