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ReviewEpidemiology and infection2018

Hepatitis delta virus and hepatocellular carcinoma: an update.

Raffaella Romeo, Arnolfo Petruzziello, Eve Isabel Pecheur, Floriana Facchetti, Riccardo Perbellini, Enrico Galmozzi, Najeeb Ullah Khan, Lucia Di Capua, Rocco Sabatino, Gerardo Botti and 1 more

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Review in Epidemiology and infection, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. [Delta hepatitis in Africa: epidemiological and clinical particularities].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2023
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  7. Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Hepatitis Delta Virus.Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2023
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  13. Genomics of Viral Hepatitis-Associated Liver Tumors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
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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

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Raffaella RomeoGastroenterology and Hepatology Unit,Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,University of Milan,Milan 20100,Italy.
Arnolfo PetruzzielloSSD Virology and Molecular Biology Unit,Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Italia, Fondazione G. Pascale,Naples 80131,Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0353-9151
Eve Isabel PecheurUniversité Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon,CNRS 5286,Inserm U1052,Lyon 69000,France.
Floriana FacchettiGastroenterology and Hepatology Unit,Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,University of Milan,Milan 20100,Italy.
Riccardo PerbelliniGastroenterology and Hepatology Unit,Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,University of Milan,Milan 20100,Italy.
Enrico GalmozziGastroenterology and Hepatology Unit,Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,University of Milan,Milan 20100,Italy.
Najeeb Ullah KhanInstitute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering,The University of Agriculture Peshawar,Peshawar 25120,Pakistan.
Lucia Di CapuaSSD Virology and Molecular Biology Unit,Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Italia, Fondazione G. Pascale,Naples 80131,Italy.
Rocco SabatinoSSD Virology and Molecular Biology Unit,Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Italia, Fondazione G. Pascale,Naples 80131,Italy.
Gerardo BottiSSD Virology and Molecular Biology Unit,Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Italia, Fondazione G. Pascale,Naples 80131,Italy.
Giovanna LoquercioSSD Virology and Molecular Biology Unit,Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Italia, Fondazione G. Pascale,Naples 80131,Italy.
Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale" · ITUniversity of Milan · ITThe University of Agriculture, Peshawar · PKUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a defective RNA virus that depends on the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for the creation of new virions and propagation of the infection to hepatocytes. Chronic infection with HDV is usually associated with a worsening of HBV infection, leading more frequently to cirrhosis, increased risk of liver decompensation and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurrence. In spite of a progressive declining prevalence of both acute and chronic HDV infection observed over several years, mainly due to increased global health policies and mass vaccination against HBV, several European countries have more recently observed stable HDV prevalence mainly due to migrants from non-European countries. Persistent HDV replication has been widely demonstrated as associated with cirrhosis development and, as a consequence, development of liver decompensation and occurrence of HCC. Several treatment options have been attempted with poor results in terms of HDV eradication and improvement of long-term prognosis. A global effort is deemed urgent to enhance the models already existing as well as to learn more about HDV infection and correlated tumourigenesis mechanisms.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularHepatitis DHepatitis D, ChronicHepatitis Delta VirusHumansLiver NeoplasmsCirrhosisepidemiologyhepatitis delta virushepatocellular carcinomanatural historytreatment

Identifiers

PMID29991359
PMCPMC9507952
OpenAlexW2856653187

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