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Int J Infect Dis. 2015 Oct 30. pii: S1201-9712(15)00253-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.10.019. [Epub ahead of print]
Hepatitis B surface antigen quantification at hepatitis B e antigen seroconversion predicts virological relapse after the cessation of entecavir treatment in hepatitis B e antigen-positive patients.Qiu YW1, Huang LH1, Yang WL2, Wang Z1, Zhang B1, Li YG1, Su TT1, Zhou HY1, Xu W1, Wang XD1, Dai YP1, Gan JH3.
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- 1The Wuxi Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214005, Jiangsu Province, China.
- 2The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China.
- 3The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu Province, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
AbstractOBJECTIVES: To assess off-treatment virological relapse rates and to determine the role of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) quantification in predicting virological relapse after stopping entecavir(ETV) treatment in patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive chronic hepatitis B(CHB).
METHODS: We enrolled 112 CHB patients in whom ETV was stopped according to APASL guideline stopping rules. Patients had HBsAg and HBV DNA levels were monitored every 4-12 weeks during ETV treatment and after ETV cessation. Post-treatment virological relapse was defined as a serum HBV DNA level of >10,000 copies/mL after stopping ETV treatment.
RESULTS: Virological relapse rate at 52 weeks after stopping ETV was 48.2%. The post-treatment virological relapse rate was significantly higher in patients age >50 years than in those <50 years (P<0.001),and the virological relapse rate was significantly lower in patients HBsAg level <2.0 log10 IU/mL than in those≥2.0 log10 IU/mL at ETV cessation (P=0.005) .HBsAg level of 2.5 log10 IU/mL at HBeAg seroconversion was the optimal cut-off value for predicting post-treatment virological relapse (P<0.001). In those age<50 and HBsAg level≤2.5 log10 IU/mL at HBeAg seroconversion, the relapse rate only 5%. In those HBsAg level≤2.5 log10 IU/mL at HBeAg seroconversion,52.4% patients achieved HBsAg levels≤2.0 log10 IU/mL at ETV cessation. While in those HBsAg >2.5 log10 IU/mL at HBeAg seroconversion, only 4.4% patients achieved that criteria.
CONCLUSIONS: HBsAg levels can help guide the timing of cessation of ETV treatment. HBsAg levels of 2.5log10 IU/mL at HBeAg seroconversion may be a useful marker to predict virological relapse after the cessation of ETV treatment in HBeAg-positive CHB patients.
Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
KEYWORDS: chronic hepatitis B; entecavir; relapse ;hepatitis B surface antigen; withdrawal
PMID:26523639 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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