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Efficacy of entecavir therapy for HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B patients with prior exposure to interferon or nucleos(t)ide analogues
Article in Hepatology Research · September 2015 with 7 Reads
Impact Factor: 2.74 · DOI: 10.1111/hepr.12600
1st Kuo-Chih Tseng
31.53 · Tzu Chi University
2nd Chih-Wei Tseng
31.36 · Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
3rd Tsai-Yuan Hsieh
Last Jia-Horng Kao
50.09 · National Taiwan University
Abstract
Aims:
The efficacy of entecavir (ETV) in treatment-experienced chronic hepatitis-B-virus (CHB) patients remains unclear. We evaluated the therapeutic responses and virological breakthrough following ETV treatment in hepatitis B e-antigen (HBeAg)-positive CHB patients with prior exposure to interferon or nucleos(t)ide analogue and treatment-naïve patients.
Methods:
This was a retrospective, multi-center study of treatment (>1 year) with 0.5 mg ETV in 248 treatment-naïve and 48 treatment-experienced HBeAg-positive CHB patients (70.5% male; mean age, 40.5 years). The rates of undetectable HBV DNA, HBeAg loss, and virological breakthrough were analyzed.
Results:
The median duration of ETV treatment was 27.3 months (18.4 to 34.5 months). The rate of HBeAg loss was 41.9% (104/248) in treatment-naïve and 45.8% (22/48) in treatment-experienced patients. The baseline serum HBV DNA and alanine aminotransferase levels were significant predictors for HBeAg loss (P = 0.01 and P = 0.04, respectively). There was no statistical difference between the groups in the rates of undetectable HBV DNA and HBeAg loss at any time point. Virological breakthrough occurred in 1.6% (4/248) of treatment-naïve and 8.3% (4/48) of treatment-experienced patients. The four treatment-experienced patients with virological breakthrough had prior lamivudine treatment. After excluding those treated with interferon, lamivudine-experienced patients had a significantly greater of virological breakthrough compared to treatment-naïve patients (log-rank test, P = 0.034; univariate Cox regression, P = 0.047).
Conclusions:
ETV-treatment efficacy, including virological response and HBeAg loss, was comparable between treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced HBeAg-positive CHB patients. Lamivudine-experienced patients had a higher risk of virological breakthrough than treatment-naïve patients. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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