NURS352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hepatitis B Vaccine, Hepatitis B, Viral Hepatitis
3 Jun 2019
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Lecture 6: immune function and hepatitis module, hepatitis management, know functions - cholesterol, lipid, and protein synthesis; etc. Talk to them about sex practices, specifically msm population. Vaccination available for h a for at risk groups. If you travel abroad to an endemic area, you have to get vaccinated. Got those antibodies through vaccine or past exposure knows when they got stuck and become hbv positive from that, and 6 months later still have surface antigen, they have chronic hbv. Serum transaminases (ast, alt, ggt) peak within 4-12 weeks. 8 weeks - start to show symptoms (flu like symptoms and jaundice of skin and eyes) Can determine if someone has hbv dna through a viral load at around 8 week mark. Viral load quantifies the amount of virus in the blood. Igg and igm release occurs at 20 weeks to years: acute - self-limiting - paroxysmal - starts and stops on its own, chronic.
