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flare up caused by chemo

my husband has had 12 rounds of chemio and now he has a flare up of hep b..they said they weren t aware of the hep b..what can be done now. he is very weak and very yellow
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if he is in kidneys failure too there is no way to help with add-on of tenofovir too so we have to wait and see if entecavir works suppressing virus fast, is it on max dose 1mg?

5 days is increadibly wrong, any normal hospital should have it and give it immediately.there are many clinical reports on this and even use of tdf+etv from torvergata hospital (rome) for example, but patients were closely monitored and drugs available immedately

it is very difficult to suggest anything in such emergency, i can tell you i use hepatitistechnologies products and they both improve liver and kidney function but they are not supposed for emergency, try to contact with them too and if their products may be of any help

this is about hiv but you may try to contact them they may know how to deal with your situation and expert lawyers for your case
http://www.omsj.org/links
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thank you for your response..i am going to look for a lawyer this week..after leaving him in the hospital for a week they did nothing..they decided to put him on baraclude but the hospital didn t carry it.. it took 5  days for me to obtain it from the pharmacy..now he is back in the hospital for the first 10 days i have been sitting there watching them basically doing nothing.. yesterday i blew up and now he is in intensive care with liver and kidney fairlure..they are trying to get him into mt sinai for a liver transplant but because of the lyphoma it is a catch 22. they are saying if he gets a transplant there is a strong chance that the lymphoma will come back and then he can t have chemo again..i know the doctors screwed up because all this was unnecessary..he was doing so good even went back to work and now this..any good malpractice lawyers out there
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they said they weren t aware of the hep b

by the way just to have a reply to them:
this is no excuse because nobody can be aware of having cronic hbv or having cleared an acute hbv in his life.hbv has no symptoms, no signs and unless the test is done noone can know.
so routine is check for hbv antibodies and use of antivirals before chemio if any antibody present
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Wow why would they not check???? That is a normal routine and no excuse not to have been done.
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you must sue doctors because they must check before starting chemio, chemio destroys the immune system and any virus cleared in the past comes back
even if hbv s cleared they must check for it because the hbv flare is usually deadly, you have gone to butchers more than doctors

how to avoid death, tenofovir+entecavir as soon as possible, no other possibilities.this is the most potent way to lower hbvdna as soon as possible and block liver damage, if he is yellow he is already on liver failure, do not wait a single moment and look for expert liver specialist as soon as you read this post, you must get the drugs possibly this same day you read this...be aware it is a matter of life and death and dont be afraid to sue the so called doctors

how to cure cancer, add gcmaf to current therapy, no sides from this
gcmaf.eu
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