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SUBMITTER: Ahn SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6244971 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahn Sang Hoon SH Marcellin Patrick P Ma Xiaoli X Caruntu Florin A FA Tak Won Young WY Elkhashab Magdy M Chuang Wan-Long WL Tabak Fehmi F Mehta Rajiv R Petersen Jörg J Guyer William W Jump Belinda B Chan Alain A Subramanian Mani M Crans Gerald G Fung Scott S Buti Maria M Gaeta Giovanni B GB Hui Aric J AJ Papatheodoridis George G Flisiak Robert R Chan Henry L Y HLY
Digestive diseases and sciences 20180822 12
<h4>Background and aims</h4>Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss is the ideal clinical endpoint but is achieved rarely during oral antiviral treatment. A current unmet need in CHB management is achievement of HBsAg loss with a finite course of oral antiviral therapy, thereby allowing discontinuation of treatment. Significantly higher rates of HBsAg loss at 72 weeks post-treatment have been demonstrated when tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) was combined with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) ...[more]