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  • Title: Azathioprine treatment in a patient with HBsAg-positive acute viral hepatitis complicated by bridging necrosis.
    Author: Sagnelli E, Felaco FM, Pasquale G, Filippini P, Piccinino F.
    Journal: Infection; 1983; 11(1):31-2. PubMed ID: 6840865.
    Abstract:
    A patient with HBsAg-positive subacute hepatitis who presented a progressively deteriorating clinical condition was treated with azathioprine (100 mg/day) for eight months. Although the clinical symptoms disappeared and the biochemical abnormalities decreased, the disease nevertheless progressed to chronic active hepatitis. Moreover, azathioprine favoured hepatitis B virus replication since titers of HBsAg, HBeAg and Dane-particle-associated core-antigen, as detected by radioimmunoassay, increased during treatment. In all, this drug was only of moderate use to our patient.
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