Farrukh Naheed.
Frequency and determinants of hepatitis C virus infection among females admitted for gynaecological surgeries.
J Surg Pak Jan ;17(1):24-6.

Objective To find out the frequency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and determination of their risk factors in pre-operative gynaecological patients. Study design Case control study. Place & Duration of study Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Fatima Hospital of Baqai University, from July 2009 to June 2011. Methodology All patients admitted either for surgery were routinely screened for hepatitis B and C. The data of sero-positive patients for hepatitis C were taken as test group A and sero-negative patients were taken as control group B. The data were collected through a designed performa and analyzed through SSPS version 16.0. The p value of =0.05 was taken as significant for any individual risk factors responsible for the transmission of hepatitis C infection. Results Frequency of seropositivity in gynaecological pre-operative case was 8.6%. Factors like home deliveries (p=0.010), previous surgeries (p=0.0001), blood transfusions (p=0.0001), husband’s seropositivity (p=0.002) showed strong association with hepatitis C viral transmission. Conclusion Risk factors, which are usually considered to be responsible for the transmission of hepatitis C viral infection, were found to be significant in our studied population.

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