Objective Previous reports show conflicting results regarding hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine efficacy in Hepatitis C (HCV) infected individuals and those with isolated core antibodies (HBcAb). We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of HBV identify possible factors that may contribute hyporesponsivness HCV-treated patients, including HBcAb. Methods conducted a prospective study 118 enrolled chr...

INTRODUCTION Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation has been reported in B-cell lymphoma patients with resolved hepatitis B (hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg]-negative and hepatitis B core antibody [HBcAb]-positive). This study aimed to assess HBV reactivation and hepatitis occurrence in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients with resolved hepatitis B receiving rituximab-containing chem...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the prevalence of occult hepatitis B viral infections (OBIs)  among blood donors considering the clinical and epidemiological importance of identifying OBIs. METHODS A cross-sectional study conducted at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between January 2011 and January 2012. Blood donors (n=8501) were screened for Hepatitis B virus surface antigen (H...

BACKGROUND HBV and HCV reactivation have been widely reported in patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapy (IT); however, few data are available on the risk of reactivation in patients with psoriasis receiving IT. The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of HBV and HCV infection in patients with psoriasis and to evaluate the effects of IT during the course of the infection. METHO...

BACKGROUND Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, vaccinated. METHODS This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the HBV immune status in a large dialysis cohort and the prevalence of occult HBV infect...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major health problem worldwide. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) and its associated risk factors, together with the molecular characterization of the virus in injecting drug users of Tehran. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study consisted of 229 injecting drug users. Serum sampl...

In this issue of the Iranian journal of Kidney Diseases, the case report of “Successful Pregnancy in a Kidney Transplant Recipient With Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection” by Kashif and colleagues1 confronts us to different challenging topics in nephrology. First, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been discovered after kidney transplantation with a negative report of hepatitis B surface an...

Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is being performed in the United States with increasing frequency because of the severe shortage of cadaveric donor organs.1,2 For example, 42 of 89 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network– certified liver transplant programs (47%) reported having performed at least one adult-to-adult LDLT in 2000, and 355 adult-to-adult LDLTs were ...