Antiviral Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis D Virus Infection – Addendum to the S3 Guideline “Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection” of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)

Lisa Sandmann; Thomas Berg; Katja Deterding; Nadine Fischer; Holger Hinrichsen; Jörg Petersen; Frank Tacke; Markus Cornberg; Collaborators

doi:10.1055/a-2181-3345

Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Z Gastroenterol 2023; 61(12): e715-e732
DOI: 10.1055/a-2181-3345

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Antiviral Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis D Virus Infection – Addendum to the S3 Guideline “Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection” of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)^[1]

July 2023 – AWMF Register Number: 021-11

Lisa Sandmann

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁹D-SOLVE Consortium, Horizon Europe Project, partner-site Hannover Medical School, Germany

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Thomas Berg

²Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

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Katja Deterding

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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Nadine Fischer

³German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS), Berlin, Germany

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Holger Hinrichsen

⁴Kiel Gastroenterology-Hepatology Center, Kiel, Germany

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Jörg Petersen

⁵IFI Institute for Interdisciplinary Medicine at Asklepios Klinik St Georg, Hamburg, Germany

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Frank Tacke

⁶Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Markus Cornberg

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁷Centre for individualised infection Medicine (CiiM), Hannover, Germany

⁸German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner-site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany

⁹D-SOLVE Consortium, Horizon Europe Project, partner-site Hannover Medical School, Germany

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Collaborators

› Institutsangaben

Abstract

Key words

bulevirtide - liver diseases - liver cirrhosis - co-infections - therapy - HDV infection - HDV - Hepatitis D

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Antiviral Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis D Virus Infection – Addendum to the S3 Guideline “Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection” of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)[1]

Antiviral Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis D Virus Infection – Addendum to the S3 Guideline “Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection” of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)^[1]