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Lamivudine and Hepatitis B Reactivation
- Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc;
- Frank Pucino, PharmD; and
- Gyorgy Csako, MD
- From University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, and National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892.
IN RESPONSE:
We thank Dr. Hsu and colleagues for their comments on our meta-analysis. We agree that corticosteroids play an important role in chemotherapy-induced HBV reactivation, which is why we listed corticosteroid use in a dedicated column in Table 1 of our article. Unfortunately, as apparent from the adjacent chemotherapy column showing administration of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunomycin, Oncovin [vincristine], and prednisone), patients in the studies by Lau and colleagues (1) and Hsu and associates (2) were both erroneously …
