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"Liver-on-a-Chip" Cultures of Primary Hepatocytes and Kupffer Cells for Hepatitis B Virus Infection
Published on: February 19, 2019
[Clinical pathology of recurrent hepatitis B after liver transplantation]
Zuoyi Jiao1, Donghong Zhang, Lunan Yan
1General Surgery Department One, Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Key Laboraory of Digestive System Tumors of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730030, China.
Objective:
To investigate the clinical pathology of recurrent hepatitis B after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).
Methods:
The clinical manifestation and hepatic pathological characteristics of 12 patients with recurrent hepatitis B after OLT were examined in this study by using hematoxylin and eosin staining,immunochemical staining of hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B core antigen,tissue in situ hybridization of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA, and Mallory's trichrome staining.The survival rate of these OLT patients was assessed by Kaplan-Meier analysis.
Results:
The early stage of recurrent HBV infection in patients with OLT was characterized by active HBV replication and mild-to-moderate inflammation in the liver. Three of the 12 patients who were treated with combination therapy group were carriers of YMDD mutants and all three showed improvement in liver function and hepatic histology after receiving adefovir dipivoxil,instead of lamivudine,in the early stage of recurrent hepatitis B after OLT. Among the patients treated with lamivudine monotherapy, four did not achieve improvement at the early stage of recurrent hepatitis B and developed fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis (FCH).
Conclusion:
Recurrent hepatitis B in patients who underwent OLT was characterized by mild-to-moderate viral hepatitis at the early stage and FCH at the later stage. Effective antiviral intervention at the early stage may reverse recurrent hepatitis B and prevent the disease progression to fatal FCH.
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