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Podcast: Decera Clinical Education Infectious Disease Podcast
Episode: Hepatitis Delta in Focus: Episode 4 of Answering the Questions on Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Description: In this episode, Tarik Asselah, MD, PhD, and Ira Jacobson, MD, provide expert insight on HDV screening, diagnosis, and management, including:Approach to screeningBarriers to screening (eg, test availability)Disease progression and complicationsDifferentiating between coinfection and superinfectionApproach to treatment (eg, whom to treat and when, treatment options, considerations for combination therapy)Management of patients with decompensated cirrhosisSurrogate markers to measure treatment successRole of correcting thrombocytopenia before initiating therapyFaculty:Tarik Asselah, MD, PhDProfessor of Medicine Department of HepatologyHôpital BeaujonUniversité de ParisClichy, FranceIra Jaco...