AASLD 2015

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Antiviral therapy in patients with non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and normal to minimally-elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels significantly reduced the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, reported Joseph K. Hoang from Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, at The Liver Meeting® 2015.

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New data reported at The Liver Meeting® 2015 indicate that entecavir monotherapy without hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) effectively prevents graft loss and death from recurrent hepatitis B after liver transplantation in patients with chronic hepatitis B without prior drug resistant mutations.

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The combination of two next-generation direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agents, ABT-493 and ABT-530, was “well tolerated,” with all non-cirrhotic patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 (GT1) infection who completed the 8-week treatment period achieving sustained virologic response at 12 weeks (SVR12), a study presented at The Liver Meeting 2015® has found.