Norah A. Terrault, MD
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) recently revised its guidelines for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection (Hepatology 2016;63:261-283). Norah A. Terrault, MD, director of viral hepatitis research in liver transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco, who helped write the new recommendations, described what has and has not changed in the latest version.
GEN: Are the guidelines a major departure from what the