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Hepatitis B Virus

Report summarizes hepatitis B virus study findings from Rush University

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 14th, 2009

"Oral nucleos(t)ide analogs for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are well tolerated with minimal side effects," scientists in the United States report.

"These agents do carry it Food and Drug Administration ''black box'' warning about the development Of fatal lactic acidosis oil the basis of data from the human immunodeficiency virus literature. However, no previously published cases of this lethal side effect have been reported in patients undergoing HBV treatment using the Current Food and Drug Administration-approved HBV medications," wrote S.M. Cohen and colleagues, Rush University.

The researchers concluded: "We report a case...

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