Hepatitis C and Liver Function in Veterans

Autor:	Louis M. Fink, Alex A. Pappas, Vicki A. Kendrick, Martha E. Humphries, Bruce E. Dunn, Ann M. Vannier
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	medicine.diagnostic_test Normal liver function business.industry Hepatitis C virus Biochemistry (medical) Clinical Biochemistry Hepatitis C medicine.disease_cause Abbott Diagnostics medicine.disease Immunoassay Immunology medicine Positive test Liver function Abnormal liver function business
Zdroj:	Laboratory Medicine. 23:804-806
ISSN:	1943-7730 0007-5027
Popis:	The following study was conducted to determine the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among local veteran patients. We used an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Abbott Diagnostics HCV, Abbott Park, III) to test sera from 323 patients; 203 samples were from patients with abnormal liver function (ALF) and 120 were from patients with normal liver function (NLF). Positive test results were obtained from 22 % of the patients with ALF and from 8% of those with NLF. Two to 3 months after the initial analysis, 11 of the 120 patients with NLF had ALF test results, including 4 of the 10 (40%) patients who originally tested HCV-positive by EIA. These data demonstrate that a significant percentage of local veterans have been exposed to HCV.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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