Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To study the effect of different withdrawal time of lamivudine on pregnant women blocking HBV intrauterine infection and to seek the best withdrawal time. METHODS Selected 120 pregnant women, who had HBsAg /HBeAg double positive, HBV DNA≥105 copies·mL
-1, ALT and AST were normal and delivered in our hospital from January 2008 to November 2010, were divided into the treatment group of 90 cases and the control group, 30 cases. The people of treatment group were divided randomly into three groups, who began to take lamivudine 100 mg·d
-1 orally in the 28th week of pregnancy. 30 cases of group A stopped treatment after delivery, 30 cases in group B stopped in the 4th week after delivery, 30 cases in group C stopped in the 6th week after childbirth, and the 30 cases of control group D did not take drug. Cases in the four groups were tested for the quantity of ALT, AST, HBV-M, and HBV-DNA in the 26-28th week during pregnancy and before childbirth. The patients of A, B and C group(cases in the group D were tested after delivery) were tested for ALT, AST, HBV-M, HBV-DNA in the 1st month, 3rd month, 6th month after drug discontinuation, and neonatus were detected immediately for HBV-M, HBV-DNA in venous blood after cut umbilical cord, then were injected 200 IU hepatitis B immuneglobulin and 10 ug hepatitis B vaccine, (hepatitis B vaccine was immunizated by 0,1,6 program). RESULTS The quantity of HBV-DNA of patients in the treatment groups was lower significantly than that in the control group before delivery, the difference was statistically significant (
P<0.05); The overall positive rate of ALT, AST in four group , the difference was not statistical significance (P>0.05). The load levels of HBV-DNA in the treatment groups returned to levels of pre-treatment at 1st month after drug discontinuance, HBsAg >250 IU·mL
-1, HBeAg were negative. The treatment group and the control group in newborns with intrauterine infection rates were 6.74% (6/89) and 31% (9/29),
P<0.05, the difference was statistically significant. CONCLUSION Lamivudine is safe and effective to interrupt intrauterine infection of HBV in late pregnancy, the high viral load carriers of pregnant women can stop drug after childbirth, and need to check periodically liver function and quantification of HBV-DNA after withdrawal.