Carreño Vicente
Fundación para el Estudio de las Hepatitis Virales, Guzmán el Bueno, 72, Madrid 28015, Spain.
World J Gastroenterol. 2006 Nov 21;12(43):6922-5. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i43.2000.
Occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a new recently characterized entity. This occult infection can be present in two different clinical situations: in anti-HCV negative, serum HCV-RNA negative patients with abnormal liver function tests and in anti-HCV positive subjects with normal values of liver enzymes and without serum HCV-RNA. This review describes recent studies of occult HCV infection in both kinds of patients.
隐匿性丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)感染是一种新发现的、最近才得以明确的疾病实体。这种隐匿性感染可出现在两种不同的临床情况中:一是抗-HCV阴性、血清HCV-RNA阴性但肝功能检查异常的患者;二是抗-HCV阳性但肝酶值正常且血清HCV-RNA阴性的患者。本文综述了这两类患者隐匿性HCV感染的近期研究情况。