Multimodal therapy and twenty years of valid management of a patient with chronic hepatitis B in a less developed Western Region in China---case report and review of the literature

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 19; no. 1; p. 49
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yue-Rong, Wu, De-Ming, Liu, Xiong-Chang, Zhou, Ning, Cao, Chang-Chun, Liu, Wu-Hua, Wang, Chun-Xia, Wang, Hui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 14.01.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Abdomen; Analysis; Antiviral agents; Care and treatment; Case Report; Case reports; Cirrhosis; Clinical medicine; Complications; Disease management; Disease prevention; Economic conditions; Endoscopy; Esophagus; Health; Hepatitis; Hepatitis B; Hepatology; Hypertension; Infections; Infectious diseases; Interferon; Literature reviews; Liver; Liver cirrhosis; Medical diagnosis; Multimodal therapy; Parasitology; Patients; Prognosis; Risk factors; Therapy; Treatment outcome; Ultrasonic imaging; China; Cirrhosis; Multimodal therapy; Disease management; Hepatitis B
• ISSN: 1471-2334; 1471-2334
• DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-3673-4

For patients with chronic hepatitis B and cirrhosis in less developed western regions in China, due to constraints of local economic conditions, the choice of treatment measures is often limited. However if patients recieved valid management and effective treatment, they were able to maintain their health and benign prognosis. This study narrates the long-term treatment and careful follow-up of a patient with chronic hepatitis B and cirrhosis in a less developed western region in China, and analyzes the prognosis of the disease and countermeasures. This would partly reflect the development of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B and multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment for cirrhosis-related complications in remote region with limited resources in the past 20 years.