• Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China;
ZHANG Zhaoxia, Email: 285715300@qq.com
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Objective  To systematically review the diagnostic value of anti-HCV in serum tested by the third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA 3) in patients with hepatitis C.
Methods  Such databases as PubMed, MEDLINE, EMbase, The Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 2013), EBSCO, CBM, CNKI, VIP and WanFang Data were electronically and comprehensively searched for relevant studies on the diagnostic value of anti-HCV in serum tested by ELISA 3 in patients with hepatitis C from inception to January 1st, 2013. Relevant journals were also manually retrieved. QUADAS items were used to evaluate the quality of the included studies. Then meta-analysis was performed using Meta-Disc 1.4 software to calculate pooled effect size in sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPE), likelihood ratio (±LR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC curve), and area under the curve (AUC) as well.
Results  Finally, nine studies were included, involving 1 182 patients with hepatitis C diagnosed by the gold standard and 4 764 patients with non-hepatitis C diseases. The results of meta-analysis using random model showed (SEN=0.96, 95%CI 0.95 to 0.97; SPE=0.96, 95%CI 0.96 to 0.97; +LR=42.21, 95%CI 10.23 to 174.23; –LR=0.02, 95%CI 0.01 to 0.09; DOR=1 635.89, 95%CI 372.37 to 7 186.83; AUC=0.996 5).
Conclusion  Anti-HCV in serum tested by ELISA 3 has fairly high value in the diagnosis of patients with hepatitis C.

Citation: TANG Jing,MENG Cunren,ZHANG Zhaoxia. Value of Anti-HCV in Serum Tested by Third-Generation Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay in Diagnosis of Hepatitis C: A Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2013, 13(11): 1318-1325. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20130227 Copy

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