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CIRCULATING HBV RNA QUANTIFICATION IN CHRONIC
HEPATITIS B PATIENTS FOLLOW-UP.
Maria Francesca Cortese1,2, Mar Riveiro Barciela3,4, Sara
Sopena1, Adriana Palom5, David Tabernero1,4, Francisco
Rodriguez-Algarra6, Ariadna Rando7, Luisa Roade4,5, Roser
Maria Ferrer-Costa8, Alison Kuchta9, Rafael Esteban-Mur10,11,
Maria Asuncion Buti Ferret5,10 and Francisco Rodriguez
Frías1,2,4, (1)Biochemistry and Microbiology/Liver Pathology
Unit, Vall D’hebron University Hospital, (2)Liver Unit, Vall
D’hebron Research Institute, (3)Liver Unit, Internal Medicine
Department. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona,
Spain, University Hospital Vall D’hebron, (4)Centro De
Investigación Biomédica En Red, Enfermedades Hepáticas y
Digestvas (CIBERehd), Instituto De Salud Carlos III, Madrid,
Spain, (5)Liver Unit, Internal Medicine Department. Hospital
Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, (6)The Blizard
Institute- Barts and the London School of Medicine and
Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, (7)Virology Unit,
Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall D’hebron,
(8)Department of Biochemistry, Vall D’hebron University
Hospital, Vall D’hebron University Hospital, (9)Roche
Molecular Systems, Inc., (10)Ciberehd, Instituto Carlos III,
Madrid, (11)Liver Unit, Hospital Vall D’hebron
Background: Circulating HBV RNA is a marker of intrahepatic
viral expression that could be useful for monitoring chronic
hepatitis B patients virally suppressed on NUC therapy
Traditionally, quantification has been carried out using various
unstandardized and low sensitive techniques resulting in
unreproducible data Here we present a highly sensitive
novel automated procedure used to identify the utility of
circulating HBV RNA in chronic hepatitis management
Methods: 119 HBV-patients (56 treated and 63 treatmentnaïve)
were included in the study Plasma samples were
collected at different time points Circulating HBV RNA and
DNA were quantified by real-time PCR using the automated
cobas®6800 analyzer (Roche HBV RNA assay- linear range
of 10-1E9 copies/mL; LLOQ of 10 copies/mL) HBcrAg was
quantified by Lumipulse G chemilumiscent assay (Fujirebio)
and HBsAg was quantified by chemiluminescent enzyme
immunoassays (cobas®8000) Univariate and multivariate
analysis were conducted considering the first sample with
undetectable HBV DNA Results: A total of 475 samples were
collected (267 and 208 for naïve and treated patients) during
a median of 3[1 3-3 4] years of follow-up in naïve cases and
2 4 [0 9-5 24] years of treatment HBV RNA was detectable
in 151 samples, including 40/170 samples from treated
patients with undetectable HBV DNA In naïve patients, HBV
DNA was 2 9log higher than HBV RNA throughout follow-up
(p<0 01) and both markers were correlated with one another
(r=0 7, p<0 01) In NUC virally suppressed patients, HBV
RNA showed a titer of 0 6log higher than HBV DNA, mainly
during the first years of treatment. Multivariate analysis
showed that a decreasing or undetectable HBV RNA titer
during treatment was a positive predictor of HBsAg<1000IU/
mL (p=0 04) outcome No relation was observed between
undetectable HBcrAg (<2 5logU/mL) and HBsAg<1000 IU/mL
outcome Conclusion: Automated HBV RNA quantification
using the cobas®6800 is a sensitive technique that enables
a reproducible viral RNA quantification. In naïve patients the
ratio between viral DNA and RNA was higher than previously
reported The presence of detectable HBV RNA virally
suppressed patients is suggestive of persistent transcription
from cccDNA reservoir These data suggest that undetectable
or decreasing HBV RNA levels are more predictive of an
HBsAg<1000 IU/mL outcome than an undetectable HBcrAg
titer Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (grant PI17/02233),
co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund
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