社区常见传染病管理-医学课件.pptVIP

* * * go Stages of Chronic HBV Infection This slide depicts the different phases of chronic HBV infection. Not all patients go through all of these phases. During the immune tolerant phase, patients are HBeAg-positive and HBsAg-positive. Serum HBV DNA levels are high, but ALT levels are normal. The immune clearance phase is characterised by liver damage leading to elevated ALT levels and the appearance of signs and symptoms of active hepatitis. In some patients this is followed by spontaneous HBeAg seroconversion and patients enter into inactive carrier state with normal ALT and very low HB