Salvage therapy with tenofovir followed by adefovir maintenance in a cirrhotic patient with a lamivudine resistant HBV flare
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A 36 year old man with chronic hepatitis B and cirrhosis was admitted in our Department for the onset of jaundice, ascites and ALT flare (x 35 u.n.v.) while under lamivudine treatment. Serum HBV-DNA was 1.48 x 10(6) IU/ml and lamivudine (LAM) resistance mutati... ...