Characterization of occult hepatitis B infection among Iranian liver transplant recipients.

Azam KhamsehVahdat Poortahmasebi Saber SoltaniMohsen NasiritoosiAli JafarianAzam GhaziasadiMehdi NorouziSaied GhorbaniNarges EslamiSeyed Mohammad Jazayeri

Published in: Journal of clinical laboratory analysis (2022)

The prevalence of OBI in the Iranian liver transplantation patients was relatively low. Future longitudinal studies with a larger sample size are suggested to explore the significance of this clinical finding, including the reactivation of cryptic HBV DNA, in liver transplant subjects.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
hepatitis b virus
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
risk factors
single molecule
patient reported outcomes
cross sectional
circulating tumor