[HBSAg DETECTION BY IMMUNEPEROXIDASE IN LIVER BIOPSIES OF CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS]
47 liver biopsies with anatomopathologial diagnosis of cirrhosis were processed by immunoperoxidase (IP) to determine the presence of HBsAg. This highly sensible and specific method has been very seldom used in our media before.Biopsies were classified into two groups: postnecrotic hepatic cirrosis (PN) (37) and non postnecrotic hepatic cirrhosis (NP) (10). Nine biopsies were IP positive and represent 19.15% from the whole population and all of them belong to PN hepatic cirrhosis.This technique is proposed as an auxiliary method when confronting diagnostic problems, and specially in tissues of endemic zones.
Félix
F
García Ahumada
Eleazar
E
Antúnez De Mayolo
Martín
M
Morales Delgado