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- Title
Hepatitis C Infection Among Dialysis Patients: A Comparison Between Patients on Maintenance Haemodialysis and Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis.
- Authors
Chan, T. M.; Lok, A. S. F.; Cheng, I. K. P.
- Abstract
Three hundred and thirty-nine dialysis patients from two centres (278 patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and 61 on maintenance haemodialysis (HD) were tested for antibody against hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) using first-generation enzyme immunoassay kits (Ortho Diagnostics). Anti-HCV was detected in five (1.8%) CAPD patients and ten (16.4%) HD patients (P<0.00001). Anti-HCV was confirmed to be positive in three (1.1%) CAPD patients and eight (13.2%) HD patients using neutralisation enzyme immunoassay kits (Abbott Laboratories). The marked difference in prevalence of anti-HCV among CAPD and HD patients was related to a significantly greater transfusion requirment of the HD patients. All the anti-HCV positive patients had been transfused. The risk of HCV infection was significantly increased in those who had received more than five units of blood. Four (26.7%) anti-HCV positive patients had one or more episodes of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) values.
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 1991, Vol 6, Issue 12, p944
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article