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Clin Exp Hepatol. 2020 Feb;6(1):55-59. doi: 10.5114/ceh.2020.93058. Epub 2020 Feb 17.
Role of quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen levels in predicting liver biopsy time in treatment-naive chronic hepatitis B patients.
Tatar B1, Acar A1, Adar P1, Kose S1.
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Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, University of Health Sciences, Izmir Tepecik Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
Abstract
Aim of the study:
The quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen (qHBsAg) level indicates the amount of transcriptional activity of covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) and integrated DNA in hepatocytes which plays a role in development of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and may help decide whether the treatment is necessary or not. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between serum qHBsAg levels and viral replication and stage of liver fibrosis in treatment-naive CHB patients and to determine the role of qHBsAg levels in predicting when liver biopsy is necessary.
Material and methods:
967 patients were included in the study. Because of refusal of liver biopsy the study was conducted on 123 patients. The association between qHBsAg levels with HBV DNA, a-fetoprotein, fibrosis stage and histology activity index was evaluated.
Results:
Of the patients, mean age was 48 ±11.2 years and 56.1% were male. We found that patients with HBV DNA ≥ 2000 IU/ml had a higher qHBsAg titer in comparison with HBV DNA < 2000 IU/ml. However, there was no relationship between qHBsAg titer and liver necroinflammation or fibrosis stage.
Conclusions:
Monitoring of qHBsAg together with HBV DNA may be helpful in CHB management. However, qHBsAg level does not provide knowledge about the timing of biopsy or the decision of CHB treatment.
Copyright: © 2020 Clinical and Experimental Hepatology.
KEYWORDS:
chronic hepatitis B; hepatocytes; liver biopsy; quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen
PMID:
32166125
PMCID:
PMC7062122
DOI:
10.5114/ceh.2020.93058
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