A 34 year-old patient is admitted to the by Dr. Laurence Bailen

Question 25 / 32: A 34 year-old patient is admitted to the hospital for detox from intravenous drug use. A medical examination reveals marked elevations in the liver function tests. The total bilirubin is 3.4, AST 1,245, ALT 1,435, Alkaline phosphatase 85. The patient is diagnosed with hepatitis B.

Which of the following sets of serologic tests would you most likely find in this patient?

	Hepatitis B	Hepatitis B	Hepatitis B core	Hepatitis B e	Hepatitis B e
	surface antigen	surface antibody	IgM antibody	antigen	antibody
A	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative
B	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative
C	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative
D	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative
E	Positive	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative

Negative Positive Negative Negative Negative

Negative Negative Positive Negative Negative

Positive Negative Negative Positive Negative

Positive Negative Positive Positive Negative

Positive Positive Positive Negative Negative

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Explanation:

Case of acute hepatitis B due to marked elevations in liver blood tests. In acute hepatitis B the Hepatitis B core IgM antibody is always elevated. The hepatitis B surface antigen is also typically positive. The Hepatitis B e antigen is also often elevated as a marker of active viral replication.

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Attribution: Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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