Korean Journal of Nephrology 1994;13(1):139-144.

정기적인 혈액투석을 받는 경남지역 만성 신부전 환자에서 B형 및 C형 간염 표식자 양성율에 대한 조사와 위험인자에 대한 연구

장재권 , 정재호 , 정홍수 , 장경호 , 김성기 , 안종운 , 김성록

Abstract

To evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in hemodialysis (HD) units and the role of some risk factors, we tested sera from 205 patients at 4 HD units for HBV infection and from 125 patients at 2 HD units for HCV infection in Kyeongnam, Korea. The prevalence of HBV and HCV infection were 10.7% and 10.4%, respectively. This rate was not so much higher than the average hemodialysis units in Korea. The prevalence of HBs Ag showed no relation to the duration of hemodialysis, history of blood transfusion and amount of blood trans- fused. The mean duration (month) of hemodialysis of the anti HCV positive and anti HCV negative group were 52.7±27.5 and 31.9±26.0 respectively. This showed the correlation between the prevalence of anti HCV and the duration of hemodialysis treatment (p<0,01). The prevalence of anti HCV incereased statistically significantly with increasing duration of hemodialysis and with increasing amount of transfusion (p<0 05), but not ralted to history of blood transfusion.