Researchers say if their results are confirmed through further study they are optimistic the approach could be used to treat chronic infections for the first time.

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In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

With several drugs in use that inhibit the hepatitis B virus polymerases (nucleos(t)ide analogues (or NUCs)), some argue that new direct-acting antiviral drugs, and new NUCs in particular ...

Those who are hepatitis B surface antigen-positive are eligible for enrollment ... A study to evaluate zilovertamab vedotin (mk-2140) combination with rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and ...

A role for rituximab in depleting B cells and compromising their antigen ... Type II mixed essential CRYOGLOBULINEMIA (MEC) is often associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and leads ...

Methods 125 patients with SLE treated with rituximab over 12 years were studied prospectively. A major clinical response was defined as improvement of all active British Isles Lupus Assessment Group ...

Methods We conducted a prospective, single-centre, open-label, randomised controlled trial of patients with ANCA vasculitis in remission after completing at least 2 years of fixed-schedule rituximab.

Study: AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis B Virus ... particularly B-cell depleting agents like rituximab, or disease. HBsAg-positivity also confers ...

Hepatitis B (sometimes referred to as hep B) is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It typically causes symptoms like stomach pain, dark urine, fatigue, fever, jaundice (yellowing ...

Patients receiving B cell-depleting agents (E.g., rituximab), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies, or cytokine/integrin inhibitors. Patients receiving tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI ...

As the number of immunosuppressive drugs has grown, so has the number of patients referred to gastroenterologists with hepatitis B reactivation, which can lead to acute liver failure. For patients ...