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Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in fulminant hepatitis B by Dr. Jacques Bernuau; Alain Goudeau; Thierry Poynard; Frederic Dubois; Gerard Lesage; Bernard Yvonnet; Claude Degott; Annie Bezeaud; Bernard Rueff; Jean-Pierre Benhamou is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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We assessed prognostic factors in 115 patients with serologically defined fulminant hepatitis B. The diagnosis in each case WM based on the finding of IgM antibody to the hepatitis B core antigen in serum. Multivariate analysis showed that factor V level (p < 0.001), patient's age (p = 0.001), absence of detectable HBsAg by radioimmunoassay (p = 0.06) and serum a-fetoprotein concentration (p = 0.07) were independent predictors of survival. The survival rate in the 21 patients in whom HBsAg was not detected was 47%, which was significantly higher than the survival rate of 17% observed in the 94 HBsAg-positive patients (p = 0.006). In patients with fulminant hepatitis B, the absence of HBsAg in serum as detected by radioimmunoassay has an independent, favorable prognostic value. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the major cause of fulminant viral hepatitis. An evaluation of prognostic factors of fulminant hepatitis B appears warranted for several reasons. First, in previous studies (1-6), prognosis was assessed in patients with fulminant hepatitis of various causes and not specifically in patients with fulminant hepatitis cacsed by HBV. Second, in previous studies (1-6), univariate analysis
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- Author
- Dr. Jacques Bernuau; Alain Goudeau; Thierry Poynard; Frederic Dubois; Gerard Lesage; Bernard Yvonnet; Claude Degott; Annie Bezeaud; Bernard Rueff; Jean-Pierre Benhamou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Elsevier BV; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0270-9139)
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781840060416
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)