PMID: 19143186Jan 16, 2009Paper

Blood levels of HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV-infection

Terapevticheskiĭ arkhiv
K R DudinaN D Iushchuk

Abstract

To estimate HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV infection. Assay of HbsAg (IU/ml) in blood serum was made in 156 patients with chronic HBV infection (70 males and 86 females, age 19 to 78 years) using the test-system HbsAg Architect Lot 59665LF00 (Abbott) on the automatic analyzer Architect with construction of 4-parameter logistic curve. There are significant differences in the levels of HbsAg depending on the course of chronic HBV-infection: inactive carriers of HBV (12,884.14 +/- 5,512.26 IU/ml) had much lower blood levels of HbsAg than patients with HbeAg-negative (66,992.28 +/- 25,908.74 IU/ml) and HbeAg-positive chronic VHB (135,039.3 +/- 48,127.06 IU/ml) patients with chronic mixed hepatitis (82,783.12 +/- 21,001.34 IU/ml) and cirrhosis of HBV-etiology (67,477.86 +/- 24,081.9 IU/ml). No significant differences were found between two subgroups of pregnant women with or without viremia by HbsAg concentration in the blood. Maximal mean content of blood HbsAg was registered in patients with HbeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B. Significant differences in blood serum levels of HbsAg exist between patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and inactive carriers of HBV.

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