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KMID : 0359919920110040437
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Korean Journal of Nephrology
1992 Volume.11 No. 4 p.437 ~ p.440
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Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepaatitis C virus in Hemodialysis patients
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Abstract
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the prevalence of serum antibodies to hepatitis C Virus (Anti-HCV) was assessed by an enzyme immunoassay (Abbott HCV EIA) in 78 patients with longterm Hemodialysis in Cheong Ju. Two patients (2.56%) were anti-HCV positive.
All anti-HCV positive patients had not revevied mutiple transfusions with mean of 8.2+/-6 pints. Anti-HCV positive patients were no significant difference compared to anti-HCV negative patients in age, duration of hemodialysis, total amount of
transfusion.
All patients had no clinical evidence non-A non-B hepatitis but they were usually poor general codition. And then Liver biopsy was not done. The result of this serologic survey suggests that anti-HCV positive among dialysis patients in Cheong Ju
area
was not high compared with other area in korea, although much less than hepatitis B infection.
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