Hepatitis D medical therapy
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S. [2]; João André Alves Silva, M.D. [3] Jolanta Marszalek, M.D. [4]
Overview
Medical Therapy
The goal of treatment in hepatitis D is the clearance of the HDV and of the HBV helper virus. The complexity of the treatment resides in the need to address two viruses, and in the simplicity of the HDV, which limits the number of targets for therapeutic agents.