Are there optimal alanine aminotransferase and HBV DNA thresholds for discriminating HBeAg-positive chronic infection from chronic hepatitis?: An evaluation of 215 young and male cases

Ercan Yenilmez; Riza A. Cetinkaya

doi:10.15537/smj.2019.2.23934

Article Information

vol. 40 no. 2 131-139

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.2.23934

PubMed

30723857

Published By

Saudi Medical Journal

Online ISSN

1658-3175

History

Received November 22, 2018
Accepted January 10, 2019
Published online February 1, 2019.

Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

Ercan Yenilmez, MD ⇑ and
Riza A. Cetinkaya, MD

From the Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ercan Yenilmez, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: ercanyenilmez79{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1145-8856

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