Inactive Carriers-- 32% spontaneously lose HBsAg in 30 years, few liver deaths

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Treatment of Hepatitis B
by Geoffrey L. Braden, MD

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Manno and colleagues[3] followed 296 asymptomatic HBsAg-positive blood
donors from France for 30 years. Thirty-two percent of these patients
spontaneously lost HBsAg over that time period. Most of the patients had
normal liver enzymes, and a control group was followed. The hepatitis B
carriers had the same overall and liver-related mortality as the control
group.

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