Management of hepatitis B during pregnancy
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Hepatitis B in pregnancy
OBJECTIVE Vertical transmission of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the commonest mode of infection and can be prevented with immunoprophylaxis of the infant and antiviral therapy in the mother. Our aim was to review a cohort of subjects with HBV in pregnancy to determine the prevalence of active disease or high HBV-DNA levels that required treatment to prevent transmission, and to review the man...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1759-5045,1759-5053
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.30