Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Can Be Used to Rule Out Cirrhosis in Hepatitis B e Antigen-Positive Chronic Hepatitis B: Results From the SONIC-B Study
Milan J Sonneveld, Bettina E Hansen, Willem P Brouwer, Henry L-Y Chan, Teerha Piratvisuth, Ji-Dong Jia, Stefan Zeuzem, Rong-Nan Chien, Robert J de Knegt, Cynthia Wat ... Show more
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 225, Issue 11, 1 June 2022, Pages 1967–1973, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa192
Published:
21 April 2020
Article history
Serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels correlate with the duration of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and may predict the extent of hepatic fibrosis.
Methods
We analyzed data from the SONIC-B database, which contains data from 8 global randomized trials and 2 large hepatology centers. Relationship between HBsAg levels and presence of significant fibrosis (Ishak 3–4) or cirrhosis (Ishak 5–6) were explored, and clinically relevant cutoffs were identified to rule out cirrhosis.
Results
The dataset included 2779 patients: 1866 hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive; 322 with cirrhosis. Among HBeAg-positive patients, lower HBsAg levels were associated with higher rates of significant fibrosis (odds ratio [OR], 0.419; P < .001) and cirrhosis (OR, 0.435; P < .001). No relationship was observed among HBeAg-negative patients. Among HBeAg-positive patients, genotype-specific HBsAg cutoffs had excellent negative predictive values (>97%) and low misclassification rates (≤7.1%) and may therefore have utility in ruling out cirrhosis. Diagnostic performance of the HBsAg cutoffs was comparable among patients in whom cirrhosis could not be ruled out with fibrosis 4 (FIB-4).
Conclusions
Hepatitis B virus genotype-specific HBsAg cutoffs may have utility in ruling out presence of cirrhosis in HBeAg-positive patients with genotypes B, C, and D and can be an adjunct to FIB-4 to reduce the need for further testing.
cirrhosis, fibrosis, hepatitis B, HBsAg
Topic:
liver cirrhosis fibrosis hepatitis b antigens genotype hepatitis b e antigens hepatitis b surface antigens hepatitis b, chronic hepatitis b virus 作者: StephenW 时间: 2022-6-6 14:09