[Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B: the imperative to move from scaling-up treatment to full treatment].

Timely and effective antiviral therapy can prevent or delay the progression of the disease to cirrhosis, liver failure, or hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic hepatitis B. Antiviral therapy indications are constantly expanding, and eventually it will be manageable to treat viral positives based on the new understanding of the disease progression and the changes in the definition of abnormal values in liver function tests.对慢性乙型肝炎患者及时有效的抗病毒治疗，可以阻止或延缓疾病进展为肝硬化、肝衰竭或肝细胞癌。基于目前对疾病进展新的认识，以及肝功能检测异常值界定等的变化，抗病毒治疗的适应证在不断扩大，最终将实现只要病毒阳性都治疗。.