Hepadnaviridae: Hep B Virus (and Deltavir.: HDV) "The Hippy Pad" | |
| In viral hepatitis ALT > AST (ALT beachball is high, AST is low) |
| ALT rises in acute phase and falls dramatically afterwards (") |
| Give at-risk infants anti-Hep B IgG antibodies along with killed vaccination (kid has IgG) |
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| Partially double-strand DNA virus |
| Intranuclear AND Cytoplasmic replication |
| Coinfection with Hep B and D is better prognosis than superinfection with Hep D. |
| Hep D requires HbsAg to be infectious |
| Hep B has Circular genome |
| Hep D is RNA negative virus |
| HBV uses reverse transcriptase |
| Chronic infection leads to cirrhosis |
| Assoc. with hepatocellular carcinoma |
| Assoc. with membranoproliferative nephritis |
| Assoc. with membranous nephritis |
| Causes arthralgias |
| After polyarteritis nodosa, kidney disease |
| Purpuric macules |
| 90% of neonate infections become chronic |
| Transmitted during delivery from mixing of maternal and fetal blood |
| 10% of adult HBV infections become chronic |
| Transmitted via sex and blood products (sign) |
| TORCH infection (tiki torches) |
| Rx: Lamivudine, NRTIs, Interferon Alpha, (Lamb, alpha and omega, NRTI lady) |
| HbSAg = Hb Surface antigen = envelope, 1st serum marker of infection |
| HbEAg, sign of increased infectivity |
| Anti-HbC antibodies, first detectable antibody. Only seen in infection, not vax. |
| Anti-HbE antibodies, seen later |
| Anti-HbS, indicate immunity or recovery from infection. Seen in vaxed and recovered |