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<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1746.2011.06623.x/abstract>
Evaluation of current treatment recommendations for chronic hepatitis B: A
2011 update
Myron John Tong1,2,*, Leeyen Hsu2, Patrick W Chang2, Lawrence Mitchell
Blatt2Article first published online: 13 APR 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2011.06623.x
© 2011 Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and Blackwell
Publishing Asia Pty Ltd Issue
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 26, Issue 5, pages 829–835, May 2011
Abstract
Background and Aim: Guidelines for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B
have been recently updated in the 2009 European Association for the Study
of the Liver consensus statement, the 2008 US Panel, the 2008
Asian–Pacific consensus statement, and the 2009 American Association for
the Study of Liver Disease practice guidelines. We sought to determine
whether these guidelines identified patients who developed hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) or who died of non-HCC liver-related deaths for antiviral
therapy.
Methods: The criteria described in the new treatment guidelines were
matched to the database of 369 hepatitis B surface antigen-positive
patients, in whom 30 developed HCC and 37 died of non-HCC liver-related
deaths during a mean follow up of 84 months. Results: Using criteria for
antiviral therapy as stated by the four current guidelines, 19–30% of
patients who died of non-HCC liver-related complications, and 23–53% of
patients who developed HCC, would have been excluded for antiviral therapy.
If baseline serum albumin levels of ≤ 3.5 g/dL or platelet counts of ≤
130 000 mm3 were included into the treatment criteria, then 85–94% of
patients who developed liver-related complications would have been
recommended for antiviral therapy. Also, the addition of precore A1896
mutants and basal core promoter T1762/A1764 mutants would have identified
98.5–100% of these patients.
Conclusion: The updated treatment guidelines for hepatitis B still
excluded patients who developed serious liver-related complications. The
inclusion of baseline serum albumin and platelet counts to current criteria
would have identified a majority of these patients for antiviral therapy.
These tests should be included into hepatitis B treatment strategies. |
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