JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION, cilt.73, sa.2, ss.156-160, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Treatment guidelines for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) do not recommend antiviral therapy for patients in the immune-tolerant phase of the disease, which generally occurs in children who acquire hepatitis B virus (HBV) vertically and may last for decades. On the basis of promising results of a pilot study, we conducted a randomized, controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of antiviral therapy in children and adolescents with immune-tolerant CHB.