Metabolic activity of neutrophils and monocytes in the peripheral blood at the viral hepatitis C

Abstract

Survey of 67 patients with viral hepatitis C was made. Of these comorbidities were identified in 11 patients. The survey was conducted at the height of clinical manifestations, in the waning of clinical symptoms in early convalescence. The control group consisted of 27 healthy individuals. In patients with hepatitis C dysfunction of neutrophils and monocyteswas revealed. These changescorrelate with the severity of the process. A consequence of the metabolic defect is a decrease in phagocytic activity of neutrophils and monocytes, which allows to offer methods of studying the metabolism of peripheral blood phagocytes as additional criteria to assess the severity of the disease, the prognosis of viral Hepatitis C, its outcomes and complications.