Endoscopic transmission of hepatitis B virus.
Although transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has long been recognised as a potential hazard of gastrointestinal endoscopy, there has been little evidence of direct patient-to-patient cross-infection after such procedures. We wish to report a case of type B viral hepatitis almost certainly acquired at endoscopy from an instrument sterilised in the conventional manner, but which had been used on the previous day on a patient with bleeding oesophageal varices who was incubating type B viral hepatitis.
D000368:Aged; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D013242:Sterilization; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000150:complications