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Abstract
Title | Presence of only wildtype virus is the strongest determinant of HBV DNA undetectability and HBsAg clearance in HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B patients treated with peginterferon | Speaker: | Milan Sonneveld | Author: | M.J. Sonneveld1*, V. Rijckborst2, S. Zeuzem3, E.J. Heathcote4, K. Simon5, H. Senturk6, S.D. Pas2, B.E. Hansen2, H.L. Janssen2 | Affiliation: | 1Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Medical Center, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 4University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 5Medical University Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 6Bezm-i Alem University, Istanbul, Turkey. *[email protected] | Introduction: Peginterferon (PEG-IFN) may result in HBeAg clearance, but persistence of viral replication due to presence of precore (PC) and/or core promoter (BCP) mutant virus is frequently observed.
Methods: 214 HBeAg-positive patients treated with PEG-IFN±lamivudine for 52 weeks were classified at baseline as wildtype (WT) or non-WT (detectable mutants at PC or BCP) by line-probe assay. Response was assessed at 6 months post-treatment (week 78).
Results: Patients harboured HBV genotypes A(35%), B(9%), C(14%), D(40%) or other(3%). PC and/or BCP mutants were detected in 64% of patients in varying frequencies across genotypes A-D. Patients with only WT had higher baseline HBV DNA levels (9.20 versus 8.86 log copies/mL, p=0.015), higher HBeAg levels (2.81 versus 2.33 log IU/mL, p< 0.001) and higher HBsAg levels (4.53 versus 4.28 log IU/mL, p=0.007) than patients with detectable mutants after adjustment for HBV genotype. Patients with WT were more likely to achieve a combined response (HBeAg loss with HBV DNA < 10,000 c/mL, 34% vs 11%, p< 0.001), HBV DNA undetectability (< 400 c/mL, 20% vs 2%, p< 0.001) and HBsAg clearance (18% vs 2%, p< 0.001) at week 78. WT at baseline was associated with combined response (OR 2.67, p=0.028), and was the strongest pre-treatment predictor of HBV DNA undetectability (OR 7.93, p=0.002) and HBsAg (OR 4.64, p=0.031) clearance at week 78, when adjusting for HBV genotype A, baseline HBV DNA and ALT and age. After stratification by HBV genotype and baseline HBV DNA and ALT, presence of only WT virus was associated with HBeAg loss with HBV DNA < 10,000 copies/mL (combined response), but not with HBeAg clearance alone (table).
Conclusions: Presence of only WT virus is a strong predictor of viral clearance in HBeAg-positive patients treated with PEG-IFN and selective use of PEG-IFN in only patients with WT virus may help optimize the use of this agent in clinical practice.
[Probability of response to PEG-IFN by WT/non-WT] |
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