Immune response to HBsAg and the spectrum of liver lesions in HBsAg-positive patients with chronic renal disease.

Immune response to HBsAg and the spectrum of liver lesions in HBsAg-positive patients with chronic renal disease.

Evidence of chronic hepatitis was found on histological examination in nine out of 15 patients positive for hepatitis-B surface antigen (HBsAg) who had either chronic renal failure or a functioning renal transplant. Cirrhosis had already developed in three of the patients, who deteriorated rapidly and died. Liver biopsies from the remaining 12 patients showed the features of chronic aggressive ...

Renal transplantation from HBsAg positive donors to HBsAg negative recipients.

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Immune response against HBsAg vaccine.

Immunological Studies in Patients with HBsAg-positive Chronic Active Hepatitis

Liver disease and the e antigen in HBsAg carriers with chronic renal failure.

This study was undertaken to assess the frequency of development and the stages of evolution of chronic liver disease in patients with renal failure who are chronic carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen. Cirrhosis or chronic active hepatitis developed in five of 21 patients and could not be predicted by the initial histological appearance or by HLA-A and B typing but was associated with the e...