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Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi

BACKGROUND: To report the findings of preoperative screening regarding prevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in patients presenting for cataract surgery. FINDINGS: A descriptive study was conducted among 377 patients presenting for cataract surgery to Department of Ophthalmology Unit I, CHK from...

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Autores principales: Naeem, Syed Saad, Siddiqui, Efaza Umar, Kazi, Abdul Nafey, Khan, SumaiyaTauseeq, Abdullah, Farhan E, Adhi, Idrees
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22954334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-492
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author Naeem, Syed Saad
Siddiqui, Efaza Umar
Kazi, Abdul Nafey
Khan, SumaiyaTauseeq
Abdullah, Farhan E
Adhi, Idrees
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Siddiqui, Efaza Umar
Kazi, Abdul Nafey
Khan, SumaiyaTauseeq
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description BACKGROUND: To report the findings of preoperative screening regarding prevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in patients presenting for cataract surgery. FINDINGS: A descriptive study was conducted among 377 patients presenting for cataract surgery to Department of Ophthalmology Unit I, CHK from April 2010 to May 2011. Convenience sampling was done to recruit the participants aged 18 years and above. The patients were screened for Hepatitis B and C infections and findings were recorded on a structured compilation sheet. The total prevalence of both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in preoperative Cataract patients was found to be 49 out of 377(12.99%). Overall, 8 out of 377 (2.1%) patients were HBsAg positive and 42 out of 377 (11.1%) were Anti-HCV positive. Only 1 patient was found with a co-infection with both HBsAg and Anti-HCV positive. CONCLUSIONS: High proportions of Hepatitis B and C are reported among preoperative cataract patients of Karachi. Routine serological screening prior to surgery should be made mandatory so that asymptomatic patients would no longer pose a threat to its spread.
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spelling pubmed-34449202012-09-19 Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi Naeem, Syed Saad Siddiqui, Efaza Umar Kazi, Abdul Nafey Khan, SumaiyaTauseeq Abdullah, Farhan E Adhi, Idrees BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: To report the findings of preoperative screening regarding prevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in patients presenting for cataract surgery. FINDINGS: A descriptive study was conducted among 377 patients presenting for cataract surgery to Department of Ophthalmology Unit I, CHK from April 2010 to May 2011. Convenience sampling was done to recruit the participants aged 18 years and above. The patients were screened for Hepatitis B and C infections and findings were recorded on a structured compilation sheet. The total prevalence of both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in preoperative Cataract patients was found to be 49 out of 377(12.99%). Overall, 8 out of 377 (2.1%) patients were HBsAg positive and 42 out of 377 (11.1%) were Anti-HCV positive. Only 1 patient was found with a co-infection with both HBsAg and Anti-HCV positive. CONCLUSIONS: High proportions of Hepatitis B and C are reported among preoperative cataract patients of Karachi. Routine serological screening prior to surgery should be made mandatory so that asymptomatic patients would no longer pose a threat to its spread. BioMed Central 2012-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3444920/ /pubmed/22954334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-492 Text en Copyright ©2012 Naeem et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Siddiqui, Efaza Umar
Kazi, Abdul Nafey
Khan, SumaiyaTauseeq
Abdullah, Farhan E
Adhi, Idrees
Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title_full Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title_fullStr Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title_short Prevalence of Hepatitis ‘B’ and Hepatitis ‘C’ among preoperative cataract patients in Karachi
title_sort prevalence of hepatitis ‘b’ and hepatitis ‘c’ among preoperative cataract patients in karachi
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22954334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-492
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