[Blood levels of HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV-infection].
OBJECTIVE
To estimate HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV infection.


METHODS
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.


RESULTS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
Significant differences in blood serum levels of HbsAg exist between patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and inactive carriers of HBV.
Dudina
K R
KR
Shut'ko
S A
SA
Znoĭko
O O
OO
Klimova
E A
EA
Trubitsyna
Iu G
IuG
Kuzina
L E
LE
Kuzin
S N
SN
Braginskiĭ
D N
DN
Kashirin
V I
VI
Cheshik
D S
DS
Serobian
A G
AG
Penkina
T V
TV
Korshunov
I B
IB
V'iuchnova
E S
ES
Iushchuk
N D
ND
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology*; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult
D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens