Occult Hepatitis B: Case History
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.051How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- chronic viral hepatitis; occult hepatitis B; hidden HBV infection
- Abstract
There is no HBsAg in the presence of HBV replication in patients with chronic viral hepatitis. This phenomenon was called occult hepatitis B. Russian researches referred as “hidden HBV infection”. We conducted a clinical analysis of the medical history of patient I. with chronic HBV infection in the cirrhotic stage. The patient had suffered from liver disease for 10 years, which occurred latently and only last year manifested pains in the right upper quadrant abdominal pain, jaundice, skin itching, dyspeptic syndrome in the form of nausea, vomiting. The diagnosis of occult hepatitis B was diagnosed in 2020. Antibodies were found to nuclear (anti-HBc > 10.0) and surface (anti-HBs 331 mMe/ml) antigens of HBV infection, with negative results on HBsAg and the absence of DNA-HBV in PCR during the examination. Morphological examination of biopsy lifetime liver material confirmed hepatitis B virus in liver tissue.
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TY - CONF AU - Olga Zamorshchikova AU - Snezhana Sleptsova AU - Keskilene Petrova AU - Maria Savvina AU - Spiridon Sleptsov PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Occult Hepatitis B: Case History BT - Proceedings of the Conference on Health and Wellbeing in Modern Society (CHW 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 256 EP - 260 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.051 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.051 ID - Zamorshchikova2022 ER -