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Spontaneous clearance of chronic delta hepatitis
Kapuria D1,2, Ben Yakov G1, Koh C1, Heller T1. Hepatology. 2019 Dec 23. doi: 10.1002/hep.31073. [Epub ahead of print]
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1 Liver Disease Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.
2 Department of Gastroenterology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Abstract
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is an RNA virus that requires the presence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) to complete its life cycle. Worldwide, chronic HDV infection is believed to occur in ~5% of people chronically infected with HBV and is the most virulent of the chronic viral hepatitis infections1 . While acute hepatitis D has an increased risk of liver failure compared to acute hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis D may often be missed as elevations in aminotransferases can be attributed to concomitant hepatitis B infection1 .
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