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ArticleSaudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association

SASLT practice guidelines for the management of Hepatitis B virus - An update.

Faisal A Abaalkhail, Waleed K Al-Hamoudi, Abdullah Khathlan, Saad Alghamdi, Mohammed Alghamdi, Saleh A Alqahtani, Faisal M Sanai

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Article in Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Multisociety consensus recommendations on hepatitis delta virus infection.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2025
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  5. Stigma in steatotic liver disease: A survey of patients from Saudi Arabia.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2024
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  7. Cost-effectiveness of tenofovir alafenamide and entecavir in chronic hepatitis B in Saudi Arabia.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2024
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  9. SASLT guidelines: Update in treatment of hepatitis C virus infection, 2024.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2024
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  15. Lower prevalence of hepatic fibrosis in low viremic hepatitis B patients with fluctuating HBV DNA levels.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Faisal A AbaalkhailGastroenterology Section, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre; College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waleed K Al-HamoudiLiver Disease Research Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University; Department of Medicine, Liver Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah KhathlanDepartment of Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saad AlghamdiDepartment of Medicine, Liver Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed AlghamdiDepartment of Medicine, King Fahd Military Medical Complex, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Saleh A AlqahtaniDepartment of Medicine, Liver Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Faisal M SanaiLiver Disease Research Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh; Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains an important public health problem with a high burden worldwide. The Saudi Association for the Study of Liver diseases and Transplantation formed a working group to develop HBV practice guidelines in Saudi Arabia. The methodology used to develop these guidelines was based on reviewing the available evidence, local data, and major international practice guidelines on the management of HBV. The aim of these guidelines is to assist healthcare providers in the management of HBV in Saudi Arabia. These updated guidelines summarize the latest local studies performed on HBV epidemiology, major changes in the prevalence of this virus, and advances in disease management.

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Hepatitis BHepatitis B virusHumansPrevalencePublic HealthSaudi ArabiaAntiviralepidemiologyguidelinesHBVhepatitis B virusliver diseasetreatment

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PMID33976009
PMCPMC8265399

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