Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 8
Editorial
Current challenges in the functional cure of HBe-Antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B

441-444

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9052/2022

Henar Calvo Sánchez, Julia Peña-Asensio, Juan Ramón Larrubia Marfil,

Abstract
This editorial discusses current challenges in treatment stop in e-antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B, with attention to immunologic and virologic markers associated with functional cure, new therapeutic options for those cases unsuitable for treatment discontinuation, and safety after treatment withdrawal.
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12/09/2022 18:28:29
Parabéns, pela publicação!!


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Received: 03/07/2022

Accepted: 06/07/2022

Online First: 22/07/2022

Published: 27/07/2022

Article Online First time: 19 days

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