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The burden of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Australia, 2011

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013
Objective: The number of Australians living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is thought to be increasing, as are adverse outcomes including cirrhosis and liver cancer, however, robust, up‐to‐date estimates of this burden are limited. Contemporary estimates
Jennifer H. MacLachlan, Nicole Allard, Vanessa Towell, Benjamin C. Cowie   +3 more
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Prevention Of Hepatitis B

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
Kowalska Marta Estera, Kalinowski Paweł, Bojakowska Urszula. Prevention of hepatitis B. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(7):315-321. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.831803 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4628 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher ...
Urszula Bojakowska, Paweł Kalinowski, Marta Estera Kowalska   +2 more
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Discontinuation of Immunotherapy in Patients With Relapsing Myelitis Without AQP4/MOG Antibodies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assesses the outcomes of immunotherapy discontinuation in patients with relapsing seronegative idiopathic myelitis (SIM), a condition that remains uninvestigated due to its rarity. We reviewed records from 77 patients with relapsing SIM at the National Cancer Center of Korea, focusing on 11 who discontinued treatment after a median ...
Ki Hoon Kim, You‐Ri Kang, Jae‐Won Hyun, Su‐Hyun Kim, Ho Jin Kim   +4 more
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Hepatitis B immunisation : a survey of surgeons and theatre nurses [PDF]

, 2000
Acute viral hepatitis remains a serious condition. Its long-term sequelae include cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Health workers constitute a high-risk group for contracting hepatitis B.
Borg, Michael Angelo, Caruana Dingli, Gordon, Jones, C. H., Swain, Karl Charles   +3 more
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Liver Allograft: Its Use in Chronic Active Hepatitis with Macronodular Cirrhosis, Hepatitis B Surface Antigen [PDF]

, 1979
A patient suffering from chronic active hepatitis with macronodular cirrhosis, positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), was treated with an orthotopic liver allograft.
Corman, JL, Iwatsuki, S, Peters, RL, Porter, KA, Putnam, CW, Redeker, AG, Schröter, G, Starzl, TE   +7 more
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High‐Efficacy Treatment in Neuromyelitis Optica Specturm Disorder Patients With Seropositive AQP4 Antibodies—A Real‐World Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the effectiveness of high‐efficacy treatments (HET) and low‐efficacy treatments (LET) in NMOSD patients with anti‐aquaporin‐4 antibodies (AQP4‐ab). Methods In this multi‐center study, we analyzed 183 AQP4‐ab seropositive NMOSD patients who received immunosuppressive treatments (IST).
Xiang Li, Binbin Xue, Jia Li, Dewei Xie, Juyuan Pan, Lanbing Zhu, Qiaowen Tong, Jing Lin, Xu Zhang, Junhui Xia, Jie Lin   +10 more
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The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort. [PDF]

, 2015
Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection ...
Cross, J, Davenport, A, Haque, T, Labbett, W, O'Riordan, A, Patel, M, Sowole, L   +6 more
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The importance of triple panel testing for hepatitis B and the burden of isolated anti-hepatitis B core antibodies within a community sample

Journal of Virus Eradication, 2023
Within the United States (US), 2.4 million individuals are living with chronic hepatitis B, but less than 20% are diagnosed. Isolated anti-hepatitis B core (iAHBc) antibodies indicate serology in an individual that is positive for anti-HBc antibodies ...
Catherine Freeland, Vivek Sreepathi, Richard W. Hass, Jonathan M. Fenkel, Jessie Torgersen, Kenneth Rothstein, Chari Cohen, Robert G. Gish   +7 more
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HCV and HBV prevalence based on home blood self-sampling and screening history in the general population in 2016: contribution to the new French screening strategy

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background The advent of effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), has prompted an assessment of the French Hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening strategy, which historically targeted high-risk groups. One of the options put forward is the implementation of
Cécile Brouard, Leïla Saboni, Arnaud Gautier, Stéphane Chevaliez, Delphine Rahib, Jean-Baptiste Richard, Francis Barin, Christine Larsen, Cécile Sommen, Josiane Pillonel, Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau, Nathalie Lydié, Florence Lot, the 2016 Health Barometer Group   +13 more
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Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2020
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) affects over 250 million people worldwide. In Papua New Guinea (PNG) CHB prevalence has been estimated to be over 8% and is a leading cause of death. To address this problem, an alliance between the government of Oro Province, a
Alice Unah Lee, Luke Mair, Bob Kevin, Lily Gandi, Olive Tarumuri, Caroline Lee, Sue Huntley, David Carl Hilmers   +7 more
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