EXPLAINER: Lab results and their interpretation

Hi Sirbay, thanks for the clarification of your posted liver blood test results. So according to what you wrote above, your doctor wants to tests you again for hep b in 6 months - probably May of this year - to determine whether you still test positive for hep b. A “chronic” infection is diagnosed if a person tests positive for the hep b virus (hepatitis B surface antigen or HBsAg+) for 6 months. If you test negative at 6 months for the hep b virus, then you would have had an “acute” (or new) infection and recovered. Please keep us posted on your test results if possible. And thanks so much for joining our conversations. Always, Joan