Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
CYPRUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, cilt.8, sa.3, ss.216-219, 2023 (ESCI)
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Occupational exposure to blood-borne viruses is a major concern for surgeons, nurses, and operating room personnel. We aimed to determine the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), anti-hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) seroprevalence of patients who were operated in the orthopedic service and to determine the prevalence of patients with positive serology, especially those in an orthopedics unit. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In our study, patients who were operated in the orthopedic unit between January 1, 2021 and January 1, 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. HBsAg, anti-HCV, and anti-HIV serologies of the participants as well as age, gender, and case subgroups were recorded. The surgeries performed on the participants were analyzed in 9 subgroups: foot-ankle, general orthopedics, trauma, sports surgery-arthroscopy, pediatric orthopedics, hand-wrist, arthroplasty, spine, and oncological surgery. RESULTS: We included 2006 patients in the study. According to the case grouping, 26 were foot-ankle, 202 general orthopedics, 642 trauma, 366 sports surgery-arthroscopy, 2 pediatric orthopedics, 145 hand-wrist, 582 arthroplasty, 12 spine, and 29 oncology. According to the ELISA results, 77 (3.8%) patients were seropositive, 64 (3.2%) were positive for HBsAg, and 13 (0.6%) were positive for anti-HCV. Anti-HIV positivity and co-infection were not detected in the participants. HBsAg (p=0.025) and anti-HCV (p=0.031) seropositivity were significantly higher in the group that underwent surgery due to trauma compared to other case subgroups. CONCLUSION: HBsAg and anti-HCV seropositivity were higher in patients who underwent surgery for trauma than in those who underwent surgery for other reasons.