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Podcast: Decera Clinical Education Infectious Disease Podcast
Episode: Hepatitis Delta in Focus: Episode 3 of Answering the Questions on Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Description: In this episode, Nancy Reau, MD, and Heiner Wedemeyer, MD, provide expert insight on HDV management, including:Use of noninvasive imaging or biopsy for staging liver diseaseScreening for hepatocellular carcinomaHBV treatmentRole of comedications (eg, erythropoietin, eltrombopag)Approach to complex cases, such as patients with:Significant fibrosis and low HDV RNA levelsHepatitis delta antibody positivity, but HDV RNA negativityHIV coinfectionDecompensated or recently decompensated cirrhosisFaculty:Nancy Reau, MDProfessor of MedicineChief, Section of HepatologyAssociate Director, Solid Organ TransplantationRichard B. Capps Chair of HepatologyRush University Medical CenterC...