Fatemeh Nili; Reza Shahsiah; Farid Azmoudeh Ardalan; Mohsen Nassiri Toosi; Alireza Abdollahi
Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2014, , Pages 17-22
Abstract
Background and Objectives: HBV DNA monitoring is important in management of chronic viral hepatitis B infection. HBV DNA measurements are carried out over period of months to years. So the analytical system must be stable and reproducible. The aim of this study was to determine the performance ...
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Background and Objectives: HBV DNA monitoring is important in management of chronic viral hepatitis B infection. HBV DNA measurements are carried out over period of months to years. So the analytical system must be stable and reproducible. The aim of this study was to determine the performance characteristics and to plan a statistical quality control system of a laboratory-developed real-time quantitative PCR assay for HBV DNA quantification. Methods: Values of systematic and random error at two clinical decision points;4.2 Log IU/mL (20000 IU/mL) and 3.2 Log IU/mL (2000 IU/mL) were determined. Candidate quality control procedures were selected and performance of the method by application of normalized operational process specification (OPSpecs) charts was determined. Results: The performance of the assay at level of 4.2 Log IU/mL and 3.2 Log IU/mL were excellent and good respectively. Moreover, a13.5S rule with two measurements offered 90% probability of error detection at level of 4.2 Log IU/mL, while no rule offered 90% probability of error detection at level of 3.2 Log IU/mL. Conclusion: Minimizing the formation of primer-dimer and nonspecific products and concentrating the target DNA during the purification process are proposed for accurate quantitative PCR particularly when CT values are high.
Alireza Abdollahi; Farid Azmoudeh Ardalan; Hossein Foroutan; Firouzeh Moradkarami
Volume 3, Issue 1 , January 2008, , Pages 35-39
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Background and Objective: Long period risk of gastric carcinoma in people affected with chronic Helicobacter pylori gastritis is 5 times more than normal people. Perhaps histological changes due to helicobacter pylori infection could be used for screening people at risk of gastric carcinoma and ...
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Background and Objective: Long period risk of gastric carcinoma in people affected with chronic Helicobacter pylori gastritis is 5 times more than normal people. Perhaps histological changes due to helicobacter pylori infection could be used for screening people at risk of gastric carcinoma and peptic ulcer. Materials and Methods: This study has been carried out as a cross-sectional process and we compared histological changes observed in Helicobacter pylori chronic gastritis in 30 patients with peptic ulcer and 30 patients without the ulcer and then classified them according to Sydney scoring system, and after collecting data, we analyzed them by SPSS software. Results: Sixty percent of patients with ulcer were male and forty percent were female. In addition, 56.7% of patients without ulcer were male and 43/3% were female without a statistically significant difference (p = 0.793). Mean age in ulcer group was 56.4 years and in non-ulcer group was 48.9 years that there was no significant statistical difference (p = 0.057). Chronic gastritis frequency increases within people in their sixth decade and after that. There was no significant difference for degree of infection with Helicobacter pylori (p = 0.346), metaplasia (p =0.885), chronicity (p = 0.796) and degree of activity (p = 0.249), atrophy (p = 0.781) in patients with or without ulcer. Conclusion: There was no significant difference in any of the variables of the study including degree of infection with Helicobacter pylori, chronicity, disease activity and intestinal metaplasia between both groups with and without peptic ulcer.
