Assessment of hepatic fibrosis in pediatric cases with hepatitis C virus in Egypt

Table 1 Characteristic features of studied patients n = 43

	No Fibrosis	Fibrosis	P value
	(n = 12)	(n = 31)
Sex
Boys	8	16	0.37 (NS)
Girls	4	15
High ALT (n = 28)	7	21	0.72 (NS)
Injections (n = 11)	2	9	0.41 (NS)
Blood transfusion (n = 37)	12	25	0.10 (NS)
Frequency of transfusion
Once	2	6	0.61 (NS)
Multiple	10	19
Surgical procedures (n = 8)	4	4	0.19 (NS)
Household contact infected with HCV (n = 1)	0	1	0.53 (NS)
No risk factor (n = 4)	1	3	0.86 (NS)
Blood disease (n = 20)
Red cell aplasia	1	0	0.14 (NS)
Sickle cell anemia	0	1
Thalassemia	8	10
Malignancy (n = 7)
ALL	0	3	NA
Lymphoma	0	4

NA: not applicable (as P value cannot be calculated).