Meeting report:The management of chronic hepatitis B in the immunocompromised patient: Recommendations from a single topic meeting

摘要

Introduction:The management of chronic hepatitis B virus (HB V) infection in immunocompromised patients presents challenges above and beyond those routinely encountered in this already complex disease. With this in mind a single topic conference was convened jointly, in May 2007 by the Scottish Viral Hepatitis Group and the Scottish Diagnostic Virology Group to discuss the management of hepatitis B in the specific contexts of chemotherapy for haematological malignancy, liver and renal transplantation and HIV co-infection#