[The microcirculatory function in the chronic HBs-antigen carrier state].

The authors discuss the problem of widely spread chronic carrier state of HBs-antigen by healthy persons. The majority of antigen carriers show both moderate clinico-biochemical and ultrasonic signs of chronic liver involvement, and different disorders of the microcirculation which are formed in conditions of prolonged persistence of the virus of B hepatitis in the body. Early diagnosis of generalized disorders of the terminal blood circulation in antigen carriers may be useful in the determination of pathogenetically substantiated treatment tactics and prognostication of unfavourable outcomes of chronic HBs-antigen carrier state in preclinical period of the disease.