DOI: 10.1055/s-00000069

Seminars in Liver Disease

Issue 02 · Volume 33 · May 2013 DOI: 10.1055/s-003-25097 Current Perspectives on Chronic Hepatitis B Guest Editors, Stephen Locarnini, MD, PhD, FRC(Path), and Alexander Thompson, MD, PhD, FRACP

Foreword

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Locarnini, Stephen; Thompson, Alex: Current Perspectives on Chronic Hepatitis B

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Liu, Chun-Jen; Kao, Jia-Horng: Global Perspective on the Natural History of Chronic Hepatitis B: Role of Hepatitis B Virus Genotypes A to J
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Glebe, Dieter; Bremer, Corinna M.: The Molecular Virology of Hepatitis B Virus
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Bayliss, Julianne; Nguyen, Tin; Lesmana, C. Rinaldi A.; Bowden, Scott; Revill, Peter: Advances in the Molecular Diagnosis of Hepatitis B Infection: Providing Insight into the Next Generation of Disease
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Wong, Vincent; Chan, Henry: Chronic Hepatitis B: A Treatment Update
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Fletcher, Simon P.; Delaney, William E.: New Therapeutic Targets and Drugs for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
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Pan, Calvin Q.; Lee, Hannah M.: Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis B in Pregnancy
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Guerrieri, Francesca; Belloni, Laura; Pediconi, Natalia; Levrero, Massimo: Molecular Mechanisms of HBV-Associated Hepatocarcinogenesis
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Abu-Amara, Mahmoud; Feld, Jordan J.: Does Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis B Reduce the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma?
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Shouval, Daniel; Shibolet, Oren: Immunosuppression and HBV Reactivation

Diagnostic Problems in Hepatology

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Carrasco, Gonzalo; Besa, Cecilia; Lewis, Sara C.; Kadri, Hena S.; Hiotis, Spiros; Thung, Swan N.: Telangiectatic Hyperplastic Nodule Associated with Vascular Malformation in a Patient with Chronic Hepatitis B: Radiologic and Pathologic Features

Erratum

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Aggarwal, Rakesh: Hepatitis E: Clinical Presentation in Disease-Endemic Areas and Diagnosis