How would you approach initiating belimumab in a patient with serologic evidence of prior hepatitis B infection?
Such as patients with negative Hepatitis B surface antigen and negative viral load but with positive hepatitis b core antibody.
Answer from: at Community Practice
The patient in question is a patient who has serologic evidence of resolved hepatitis B infection.
Of note, testing for hepatitis B is not a formal recommendation before starting belimumab. However, it is also important to point out that testing positive for hepatitis B was an exclusion criterion i...