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Prevelance of occult HBV in chronic hepatitis C and cryptogenic hepatitis patients
13th Euro-Global Gastroenterology Conference
Bulent Cakal
Istanbul University, Turkey
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Gastrointest Dig Syst
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Abstract
Occult hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection (OBI) is considered as the possible a phase of the HBV natural history but it remains unclear the molecular mechanisms and clinical impact and epidemiology aspect of OB陌. We investigated the prevalence of OBI and its clinical impact among patients with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and with cryptogenic hepatitis. This study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of 陌stanbul University- School of Medicine (No: 2015/1519). This prospective cohort study included a total of 60 HBsAg-negative patients (27 patients with chronic HCV and 33 patients with cryptogenic hepatitis) were enrolled in Department of Gastroenterology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. Liver tissue samples had been obtained by percutaneous needle liver biopsy and immediately frozen and stored at -80掳C. Total nucleic acids were extracted from frozen liver biopsies using QIAamp DNA Mini Kit (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer鈥檚 instructions. OBI was defined as HBV DNA positivity in two or more different viral genomic regions by nested polymerase chain reaction PCR using 4 sets of primers in preS-S (S), precore-core (C), Pol, and X viral regions of the HBV genome. Plasmid HBV DNA 4.1 kb and liver biopsy samples obtained from patients with chronic HBV infection (positive control) were used. Statistical analyses were evaluated using Mann鈥揥hitney U, Chi-square test and Kruskal Wallis tests. The baseline characteristics of patients are presented in figure 1. The prevalence of OBI was 25.9% (7/26) with 27.3% (9/33), 26.7% (16/60) in patients anti-HCV (+), cryptogenic hepatitis, and totaly respectively. There wasn鈥檛 significant differences for prevelance of OB陌 between patients with Chronic HCV infection and cryptogenic hepatitis (P=0.907). Patients with anti-HCV (+), OB陌 (+) were older compared with patients anti-HCV (+), OB陌 (-), (P: 0.033). As it is expected that cryptogenic hepatitis patients had higher serum alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyltransferase level. Clinical signifance and role of OBI in patients with chronic HCV infection is controversial. According to first results of the study, prevelance of OB陌 is correlated with endemicity of Hepatitis B infection moreover OB陌 can be associated with liver injury rather than chronic HCV infection. Therefore, it appears that host factors rather than viral factors are more responsible for OBI.Biography
E-mail: bulentcakal@yahoo.com
