Posttransfusion hepatitis
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- We concluded that interferon therapy for the acute phase of posttransfusion hepatitis is useful for suppressing viral replication and quickly improving the ALT level, but it can not always prevent the development of chronic hepatitis.
- The results thus obtained indicate that the use of HBsAg test for selection of donors in order to prevent posttransfusion hepatitis is ineffective.
- First, a brief description of the history and inter- pretation of the screening tests adopted to prevent posttransfusion hepatitis is presented.
- Despite screening of blood donors for HBV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, posttransfusion hepatitis is still an important problem, stated J.
- 5 Similarly, a previous history of maternal posttransfusion hepatitis is highly related to vertical transmission.
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