BMC Infectious Diseases (Jul 2017)

A cross-sectional sero-survey on preoperative HBV vaccination policy in Poland

  • Maria Ganczak,
  • Marcin Korzen,
  • Alina Jurewicz,
  • Zbigniew Szych

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2607-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

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Abstract Background A two-dose preoperative vaccination schedule against HBV has been the widely accepted policy in Poland. However, its effectiveness has not yet been assessed. Objective: To evaluate a two-dose preoperative HBV vaccination policy by an assessment of the proportion of patients who don’t present a protective level of anti-HBs (180 days after. Anti-HBs titer was below a protective level in 49.2% of participants (0.0 mIU/ml in 17.8%, 0.1–9.9 mIU/ml in 31.4%); none of them were aware of this fact. Age ≤ 52 years (OR = 1.89) and having surgery more than 37.5 days after HBV vaccination (OR = 2.70) were associated with greater odds of being protected against HBV infection through vaccination. For the time frame between the second dose implementation and surgery 23 days, a sensitivity of 84% and specificity of 22% for obtaining protection against HBV infection was found, for the time frame >37.5 days – sensitivity remained high (80%), while specificity increased (41%); there was an apparent peek on the ROC curve between 38 and 60 day. In the group vaccinated 0–37.5 days before surgery, less patients had the protective level of anti-HBs titer than in vaccinated 38–60 days before surgery (32.3% vs 60.0%; p = 0.03). Conclusions The success rate in achieving adequate immune protection with two dose HBV vaccination schedule in preoperatively vaccinated patients is relatively low, especially among those vaccinated less than five weeks prior to surgery. In more than a third of cases the standard three-dose regimen could have been implemented, as participants had time to complete a third dose. Current recommendations regarding a preoperative policy with a 2-dose vaccination schedule in Poland should be revised; the best time to perform surgery after the implementation of the second dose of vaccine in the context of patient protection against HBV infection would be between 38 and 60 days.

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