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Severe acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B during pegylated interferon treatment and early intervention with corticosteroid

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Title
Severe acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B during pegylated interferon treatment and early intervention with corticosteroid
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Virology Journal, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/1743-422x-9-136
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Qing Mao, Hui-Yan Zhang, Jian-Ping You, Xu-Qing Zhang

Abstract

Severe acute exacerbation or liver failure induced by standard interferon-α(IFN-α) therapy had been reported to occur in few patients with chronic hepatitis B. However, no report showed that pegylated interferon-α therapy was able to induce severe acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B. Here, we describe three patients with severe acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B during pegylated interferon-α2a (Pegasys) treatment. One patient progressed into acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) at the second week of Pegasys treatment. Two patients progressed into acute-on-chronic pre-liver failure (pre-ACLF) at the second and eighth week of Pegasys treatment, respectively. Three patients recovered after early combined intervention with corticosteroid and lamivudine. Our data indicated that there was a risk of severe acute exacerbation among patients with chronic hepatitis B during receiving Pegasys treatment. Importantly, early combined intervention with corticosteroid and lamivudine should be introduced to prevent the disease progression and improve their prognosis once severe acute exacerbation was diagnosed.

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Unknown 17 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 18%
Professor 2 12%
Student > Postgraduate 2 12%
Student > Master 2 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Other 2 12%
Unknown 5 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 47%
Neuroscience 1 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 6%
Unknown 7 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 July 2012.
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#15,247,248
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#1,935
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#104,475
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#35
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