ABSTRACT
This up-to-date reference serves as a comprehensive overview of, and patient treatment manual for, chronic viral hepatitis-accounting for subtleties in the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients, rapidly evolving concepts in patient management, and heightened public awareness of the disease.
Illustrates how current advances in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities may benefit patients with chronic viral hepatitis!
Organized in an easily consulted case-study format that focuses on relevant and challenging patient cases in each chapter, Management of Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Including tabulated summaries of laboratory and serologic data, Management of Chronic Viral Hepatitis is an indispensable guide for gastroenterologists and hepatologists, infectious disease specialists, clinical virologists, internists, family practitioners, and medical school students in these disciplines.
Hepatitis B Virology: Acute and Chronic Infection-Wild-Type HBV and HBV Variants
Khozema B. Hussain and Anna S. F. Lok
Hepatitis C Virology: Antigen, Antibody, and Molecular Testing
Roberto V. Leon, María D. de Medina, and Eugene R. Schiff
Current Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
Paul Martin, Marc A. Edelstein, and Steven-Huy B. Han
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B: Future Approaches
Marcelo O. Silva and María J. Frontera Vaca
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B in Transplant Recipients
Robert G. Gish
Alternative Therapies for Chronic Hepatitis C
Dickens Theodore and Michael W. Fried
Current Treatment of Hepatitis C
Javaid A. Shad and John G. McHutchison
Persistently Normal Alanine Aminotransferase Levels in Individuals with Hepatitis C
David A. Zink and Ann L. Silverman
Retreatment of Hepatitis C: Interferon Nonresponders
Anne M. Larson
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C: Transplant Recipients
Gustavo Marino and Vinod K. Rustgi
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B and C: HIV-Coinfected Patients
Brian M. Isler and Kenneth E. Sherman
Treatment of Hepatitis D
Antonio Craxì and Vito Di Marco
Future Hepatitis C Virus Therapy: Protease and Helicase Inhibitors and Beyond
Lee M. Kaplan
Index
Khozema B. Hussain and Anna S. F. Lok
Hepatitis C Virology: Antigen, Antibody, and Molecular Testing
Roberto V. Leon, María D. de Medina, and Eugene R. Schiff
Current Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
Paul Martin, Marc A. Edelstein, and Steven-Huy B. Han
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B: Future Approaches
Marcelo O. Silva and María J. Frontera Vaca
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B in Transplant Recipients
Robert G. Gish
Alternative Therapies for Chronic Hepatitis C
Dickens Theodore and Michael W. Fried
Current Treatment of Hepatitis C
Javaid A. Shad and John G. McHutchison
Persistently Normal Alanine Aminotransferase Levels in Individuals with Hepatitis C
David A. Zink and Ann L. Silverman
Retreatment of Hepatitis C: Interferon Nonresponders
Anne M. Larson
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C: Transplant Recipients
Gustavo Marino and Vinod K. Rustgi
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B and C: HIV-Coinfected Patients
Brian M. Isler and Kenneth E. Sherman
Treatment of Hepatitis D
Antonio Craxì and Vito Di Marco
Future Hepatitis C Virus Therapy: Protease and Helicase Inhibitors and Beyond
Lee M. Kaplan
Index
