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ReviewGastroenterology2008

Virologic monitoring of hepatitis B virus therapy in clinical trials and practice: recommendations for a standardized approach.

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Geoffrey Dusheiko, Angelos Hatzakis, Daryl Lau, George Lau, T Jake Liang, Stephen Locarnini, Paul Martin, Douglas D Richman, Fabien Zoulim

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Review in Gastroenterology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
76citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
16.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 232 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. SASLT practice guidelines for the management of hepatitis B virus.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
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16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 10 institutions in 6 countries.

Jean-Michel PawlotskyFrench National Reference Center for Viral Hepatitis B, C and delta, Department of Virology, Henri Mondor Hospital, University of Paris XII, Créteil, France. jean-michel.pawlotsky@hmn.aphp.fr
Geoffrey Dusheiko
Angelos Hatzakis
Daryl Lau
George Lau
T Jake Liang
Stephen Locarnini
Paul Martin
Douglas D Richman
Fabien Zoulim
Athens State University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHospices Civils de Lyon · FRIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USNational Institutes of Health · USQueen Mary Hospital · CNThe Royal Free Hospital · GBUniversité Paris Cité · FRUniversity of California, San Diego · USVictorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory · AU

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms Of Hepatitis B Viral Pathogenesis And PersistenceZIADK054500 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI LIANG, T. JAKE · 2009 to 2025
$20.3M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN RENAL INTERSTITIAL FIBROSISR01DK054500 · NIDDK · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI EDDY, ALLISON AUDREY · 1999 to 2008
$2.8M
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF HEPATITIS B VIRAL PATHOGENESIS AND PERSISTENCEZ01DK054500 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI LIANG, T. JAKE · 1997 to 2008
$927k
Clinical Significance&Molecular Pathology Of Hepatitis BZ01DK054501 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI LIANG, T. JAKE · 1997 to 2008
$927k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 DK054500PHS HHS R0-1 AIO60449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is aimed at suppressing viral replication to the lowest possible level, and thereby to halt the progression of liver disease and prevent the onset of complications. Two categories of drugs are used in HBV therapy: the interferons, including standard interferon alfa or pegylated interferon alfa, and specific nucleoside or nucleotide HBV inhibitors that target the reverse-transcriptase function of HBV-DNA polymerase. The reported results of clinical trials have used varying definitions of efficacy, failure, and resistance based on different measures of virologic responses. This article discusses HBV virologic markers and tests, and their optimal use both for planning and reporting clinical trials and in clinical practice.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsBiomarkersClinical Trials as TopicEndpoint DeterminationHepatitis BHumansInterferonsPractice Guidelines as TopicTreatment OutcomeVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsBiomarkersInterferons

Identifiers

PMID18242209
PMCPMC2676233
OpenAlexW2080268748

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.