Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To analyze the correlation between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in pregnant women and intrauterine infection of neonates.
METHODS The clinical data of 680 cases of HBV infected women with single pregnancy who were admitted to the hospital from Jan. 2015 to Jan. 2017 were collected. The peripheral blood of all pregnant women were collected for hepatitis B two half-and-half and quantitative determination of HBV-DNA, and the umbilical cord blood of neonates was taken after birth for HBV-DNA quantitative determination. According to the situation of HBV infection, the subjects were grouped. Totally 165 cases with positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B E antigen (HBeAg) and hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) were included into group A, 455 cases with positive HBsAg, hepatitis B E antibody (HBeAb) and HBcAb were included into group B, 53 cases with positive HBsAg and hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) were included into group C, and 7 cases with positive HBsAg and HBeAg were included into group D. The relationship between hepatitis B infection in pregnant women and intrauterine infection of neonates was analyzed.
RESULTS There were 64 cases of neonatal infections in 680 cases of hepatitis B virus infected women with single pregnancy, and the infection rate was 9.41%. The infection rates in group A, group B, group C and group D were 14.55%, 6.15%, 22.64% and 0, respectively. The infection rate was the highest in group C (
P<0.05), The HBV-DNA was positive in 56 cases of neonates in 680 pregnant women with hepatitis B virus, and the positive rate was 8.24%. The positive rate in group A (18.18%) was higher than that in group B (5.71%), group C (1.87%) or group D (0) (
P<0.05). The positive rates of HBsAg and HBV-DNA in neonates borne by women with HBV-DNA viral load ≥ 10
5 copies/ml were 25.74% and 24.75%, which were higher than those in women with viral load of 103~105 copies/ml or women with viral load < 103 copies/ml (
P<0.05). There was a positive correlation between the HBV-DNA viral load of pregnant women and the incidence of intrauterine infection in neonates (
P<0.05).
CONCLUSION The incidence of intrauterine infection is relatively higher in neonates born by HBV infected pregnant women, and the higher the HBV viral load is, the higher the risk of neonatal intrauterine infection is.