Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 884-891 , December 2008

The role of serial measurement of serum HBV DNA levels in patients with chronic HBeAg(−) hepatitis B infection: Association with liver disease progression. A prospective cohort study

  • George Zacharakis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Preventive Medicine, Social Security Institute, Alexandroupolis, Greece
    • Second Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +30 2107774742; fax: +30 2107706871.
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  • John Koskinas

      Affiliations

    • Second Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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  • Stamatia Kotsiou

      Affiliations

    • B Academic Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Fevronia Tzara

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Preventive Medicine, Social Security Institute, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Nikolaos Vafeiadis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Preventive Medicine, Social Security Institute, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Menelaos Papoutselis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Preventive Medicine, Social Security Institute, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Eustratios Maltezos

      Affiliations

    • B Academic Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Eleftherios Sivridis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece
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  • Kostantinos Papoutselis

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Preventive Medicine, Social Security Institute, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Received 30 March 2008 ,Accepted 10 June 2008.

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☆ Preliminary results of this study were presented at the Liver Meeting 2007 of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. This study is supported by a grant from the Subprogram 5, “Quality of Life and Environment” of the European Community Project Interreg I and II .

PII: S0168-8278(08)00414-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2008.06.009

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 884-891 , December 2008

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