European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF ESR AND PLATELETS IN HBSAG, HIV AND HCV INFECTIONS

Rajeswari S., Anila Mathan and Swaminathan S.*

ABSTRACT

Infection is still one of the leading cause of cirrhosis & Hepatocellular Carcinoma world wide. Many studies have shown that blood count indices are altered in infections involving HbsAg, HCV and HIV. However, only very few studies have found out an associations between individual counts and the infecting organism and majority of studies have found associations using count ratios. The outcome of this study has established strong associations between controls and patients for ESR in HbsAg & HIV (P <0.000001 & <0.05) and platelets in HCV & HIV infections (P<0.000001 & <0.01) respectively and only moderate inverse significance was observed for NLCR between controls and patients in the case of HbsAg infection. This study suggests that ESR and platelets values should be routinely monitored in infections involving HbAg, HCV and HIV.

Keywords: HbsAg, HCV, HIV, NLCR.