Abstract

MULET PEREZ, Agustín et al. Chronic Hepatitis in Donors and Non-Blood Donors with Positive Antibodies to the Virus C. CCM [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 302-314. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: the hepatitis C virus infection, problem of worldwide health is one of the main causes of chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. Objective:  to identify whether there are differences in the frequency of occurrence of chronic hepatitis and their clinical characteristics, humoral and pathological, between donors and non-blood donors with antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV) positive Methods: the study group comprised all patients with anti-HCV positive, diagnosed by ultramicroelisa in Provincial Blood Bank, treated from January 2000 to December 2011, in General University Hospital Vladimir Ilich Lenin of Holguin. Liver biopsy was performed to patients. Two intentional samples were selected: patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis study group and control group 46 donors, 17 non-blood donors without virus surface antigen pretreatment B or interferon and ribavirin. Results: chronic hepatitis was higher (P <0.05) in the control group, with more active forms with or without severe fibrosis (P <0.001), and alaninoaminotransferasas (ALAT) altered (p <0.001), unlike the study group prevalence of hepatitis with mild activity or minimal and normal ALAT. Donors were minority symptomatic difference (p <0.001) than non-donors, 82% with symptoms, in decreasing order: asthenia (14), right upper quadrant discomfort (12) and dyspepsia (7). Conclusions:  the lower frequency of chronic hepatitis with positive HCV in blood donors, predominantly minimal to slight activity, could be due to early diagnosis in early stages of the disease. Asymptomatic donors with normal transaminases predominated on non-donors, which could correspond to the magnitude of the activity and stage of chronic hepatitis those ones.

Keywords : HCV antibody; chronic hepatitis C; blood donors.

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