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The Performance of Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein for Detecting Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma Is Influenced by Antiviral Therapy and Serum Aspartate Aminotransferase: A Study in a Large Cohort of Hepatitis B Virus-Infected Patients
by Xiangjun Qian
1,2,† [ORCID] , Yanna Liu
1,†, Fengping Wu
3, Siyu Zhang
4, Jiao Gong
5, Yuemin Nan
4 [ORCID] , Bo Hu
5 [ORCID] , Junhui Chen
6, Jingmin Zhao
7, Xiangmei Chen
1, Weidong Pan
2,* [ORCID] , Shuangsuo Dang
3,* and Fengmin Lu
1,8,9,*
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Department of Microbiology, Infectious Disease Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
2
Department of Pancreatic Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510655, China
3
Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, China
4
Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050051, China
5
Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
6
Intervention and Cell Therapy Center, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518035, China
7
Department of Pathology and Hepatology, The 5th Medical Centre, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China
8
Precision Medicine Center, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
9
Beijing Key Laboratory of Hepatitis C and Immunotherapy for Liver Diseases, Peking University Hepatology Institute, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
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These authors contributed equally to this work.
Academic Editors: Eric O. Freed and Philippe Gallay
Viruses 2022, 14(8), 1669; https://doi.org/10.3390/v14081669
Received: 24 April 2022 / Revised: 25 June 2022 / Accepted: 14 July 2022 / Published: 29 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Acute and Chronic Viral Hepatitis)
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Background and aims: Factors associated with abnormally elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients remain to be studied. We aimed to identify factors associated with elevated serum AFP in patients with non-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and early-stage HCC and their influences on the performance of AFP for detecting early-stage HCC. Methods: This multicenter, retrospective study was conducted in 4401 patients with chronic HBV infection, including 3680 patients with non-HCC and 721 patients with early-stage HCC. Factors associated with elevated AFP were analyzed. Diagnostic performance of AFP for early-stage HCC were compared among groups through area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity. Results: When analyzed by multivariate logistic regression, antiviral therapy was negatively associated with elevated AFP, while hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) > 1× upper limit of normal (ULN) were positively associated with elevated AFP both in patients with non-HCC and early-stage HCC (all p < 0.05). The AUCs of AFP for detecting early-stage HCC in patients with antiviral therapy, HBV DNA (−), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 1× ULN, and AST ≤ 1× ULN were significantly higher compared to those in non-antiviral therapy, HBV DNA (+), ALT > 1× ULN, and AST > 1× ULN groups, respectively. When categorizing patients into AST ≤ 1× ULN and > 1× ULN, AFP achieved the highest AUCs in patients with AST ≤ 1× ULN regardless of antiviral treatment (AUCs = 0.813 and 0.806, respectively). Furthermore, there were considerable differences in the cut-off values of AFP in detecting early-stage HCC in different subgroups when applying similar sensitivity and specificity. Conclusions: Antiviral therapy and serum AST might be used to help judge and select the specific cut-off values of serum AFP for HCC surveillance in different at-risk populations. View Full-Text
Keywords: alpha-fetoprotein; hepatitis B virus; antiviral therapy; aspartate aminotransferase; hepatocellular carcinoma
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