## Abstract The long‐term efficacy of lamivudine therapy in patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still not clear. In this study, 20 non‐cirrhotic Japanese patients infected with HBV received lamivudine therapy for more than 1 year and were followed for a median period of 8.5 years (ra
Efficacy and tolerability of long-term therapy using high lamivudine doses for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B
✍ Scribed by Luiz Caetano Da Silva; João Renato Rebello Pinho; Roberta Sitnik; Luís Edmundo Pinto Da Fonseca; Flair José Carrilho
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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