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Rev Gastroenterol Peru. 2000 Apr-Jun;20(2):134-139.

[HBSAg DETECTION BY IMMUNEPEROXIDASE IN LIVER BIOPSIES OF CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS].

Revista de gastroenterologia del Peru : organo oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterologia del Peru

[Article in Spanish]
Félix García Ahumada, Eleazar Antúnez De Mayolo, Martín Morales Delgado

PMID: 12140595

Abstract

47 liver biopsies with anatomopathologial diagnosis of cirrhosis were processed by immunoperoxidase (IP) to determine the presence of HBsAg. This highly sensible and specific method has been very seldom used in our media before.Biopsies were classified into two groups: postnecrotic hepatic cirrosis (PN) (37) and non postnecrotic hepatic cirrhosis (NP) (10). Nine biopsies were IP positive and represent 19.15% from the whole population and all of them belong to PN hepatic cirrhosis.This technique is proposed as an auxiliary method when confronting diagnostic problems, and specially in tissues of endemic zones.

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