The incidence and contributing factors of cirrhosis developing in patients with chronic type B hepatitis were assessed prospectively in 684 clinicopathologically verified patients, of which 509 were HBeAg positive and 175 were anti-HBe positive at entry into the study. During an average follow-up pe
Successful treatment with lamivudine may correlate with reduction of serum ferritin levels in the patients with chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis type B
โ Scribed by Shogo Ohkoshi; Akira Yoshimura; Satoshi Yamamoto; Masahiko Yano; So Kurita; Kazuhide Yamazaki; Yo-hei Aoki; Satoshi Yamagiwa; Hiroto Wakabayashi; Motoya Sugiyama; Tohru Takahashi; Tohru Ishikawa; Yasunobu Matsuda; Takafumi Ichida; Tomoteru Kamimura; Yutaka Aoyagi
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 783 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1936-0533
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