Response to adefovir or entecavir in renal allograft recipients with hepatitic flare due to lamivudine-resistant hepatitis B
β Scribed by Kai Chung Tse; Desmond Y. H. Yap; Colin S. O. Tang; Susan Yung; Tak Mao Chan
- Book ID
- 110890230
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 363 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0902-0063
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Entecavir (ETV) is currently recommended as a rescue therapy purely for adefovir (ADV)resistant chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. We evaluated the efficacy of ETV in patients who were resistant to lamivudine (LAM)/ADV sequential therapy and in those resistant to LAM monotherapy. Fifty LAM/
## Abstract No study has reported on the comparative effect of adefovir (ADV) addβon lamivudine (LAM) versus switching to entecavir (ETV) in LAMβresistant patients with chronic hepatitis B. From October 2007 to September 2008, 92 consecutive LAMβresistant patients were enrolled (47 LAMβ+βADV and 45