Abstract

INFANTE VELAZQUEZ, Mirtha; ARUS SOLER, Enrique; FERNANDEZ NARANJO, Anayda  and  GRA ORAMAS, Bienvenido. Hallazgos clínicos, bioquímicos y morfológicos en 103 pacientes con anticuerpos contra el virus de la hepatitis C. Rev cubana med [online]. 1998, vol.37, n.2, pp. 66-71. ISSN 1561-302X.

103 patients carriers of hepatitis C virus antibodies detected by the Cuban diagnostic system (Anti HCV, CIGB, Havana) were studied. Active chronic hepatitis (23.2 %) was the predominant histological lesion, although there were 2 cases with acute severe hepatitis due to a combined infection with A and B viruses. A few symptoms were observed in most of the patients, who were blood donors and blood transfusion receptors (44.5 %). The latter were associated with the most severe hapatic lesions. It is stressed the presence of heal thy carriers of the virus.

Keywords : HEPATITIS C-LIKE VIRUSES [immunology]; HEPATITIS C-LIKE [isolation & purification]; CARRIER STATE; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION.

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