SUMMARY
HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION RATE
AND SOME CLINICAL AND
LABORATARYCHARACTERISTICS IN
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE PATIENTS ON
HEMODIALYSIS AT THAI NGUYEN NATIONAL
HOSPITAL
Objective:Describe the clinical and subclinical
characteristics of patients with chronic kidney
disease (CKD) on hemodialysis (HD) who have
hepatitis C virus infection and compare it with a
group of patients without hepatitis C virus.
Subject and method: A cross-sectional
descriptive study in patients with chronic kidney
disease on dialysis at Thai Nguyen Central
Hospital from July 2021 to July 31, 2022.
Result: There were 109 patients included 53
patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Mean
age: 54.98 ± 14.61; 58.5% of patients were
male; 51-to-60-year-old-patient group accounted
for the highest rate (34.0%). Average time of
dialysis: 6.15 ± 2.46 years; the highest rate was
found in the group of patients with dialysis time
from 5-7 years (39.6%). The most common
clinical symptom was fatigue (81.1%), and the
least common was hepatomegaly (9.4%). The
proportion of patients with HCV infection with
hypertension was 67.9%, higher than the group
of patients without HCV infection (50.0%). The
group of patients with viral load > 106 copies
accounted for the highest rate (34.0%). The rate
of HCV-infected patients requiring blood
transfusion was 81.1%, which higher than that in the non-HCV group (64.3%). The mean