Is HPV 33 positive serious?



HPV (human papillomavirus) virus 33 positive belongs to the high-risk type of human papillomavirus infection, which has the risk of causing the development of cervical cancer, whether the condition is serious or not needs to be combined with the results of cervical liquid-based cytology TCT to determine. If the TCT result is normal, it is not serious; if the TCT result is abnormal, it is more serious.

1. Normal TCT result: HPV 33 positive, if no abnormal cervical lesions are found in the TCT result, the condition is not serious. HPV 33 positive alone may be a transient infection in the body, and as the body’s resistance strengthens, the virus can be cleared on its own, and the virus will become negative through retesting.

2. Abnormal TCT results: HPV virus 33 positive combined with abnormal TCT results, such as cervical epithelial cells within the low-grade neoplastic lesions, high degree of neoplastic lesions, etc., then the condition is more serious, need to further cervical tissue biopsy, cervical lesions, if there is a pre-cancerous lesion of the cervix, need to carry out cervical conization, cervical cancer need to have a total uterine excision surgery, and regular follow-up after the operation.

HPV virus 33 positive need to actively go to the hospital to consult the cause of the disease, after clarification of symptomatic treatment.