How is hepatitis D treated?

In this video, Helenie Kefalakes, specialist in internal medicine at the Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectiology and Endocrinology at the Hannover Medical School in Germany, answers the following questions in her lecture “Standard of treatment in Germany and worldwide”

• How should hepatitis D virus infection be treated?
• How can patients with advanced liver disease be treated?
• When is a liver transplant an option?

This video part of the new series "Insights on HDV and HBV" and a product of the “Hepatitis D: B aware: Stay informed, stay protected! All you need to understand about Hepatitis D and Hepatitis B” campaign.

“Insights on HDV and HBV" is an info repository for people/patients designed to equip the community with the knowledge needed to understand the risk of hepatitis D infection in the context of the hepatitis B virus.

The video series is a product of organizations, professional institutions and research consortia dealing with hepatitis B that worked together for the “Hepatitis D: B aware: Stay informed, stay protected! All you need to understand about Hepatitis D and Hepatitis B” campaign. The organizations involved are TherVacB, D-Solve, Deutsche Leberstiftung, ICE-HBV, Stephan Urban Stiftung and DZIF.
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More information about the campaign patrons:
D-Solve: https://www.d-solve-consortium.eu/
TherVacB: https://www.thervacb.eu/