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Randomized, controlled trial of entecavir versus placebo in children with hepatitis B envelope antigen–positive chronic hepatitis B
Maureen M. Jonas1,*, Mei-Hwei Chang2, Etienne Sokal3, Kathleen B. Schwarz4, Deirdre Kelly5, Kyung Mo Kim6, Simon C. Ling7, Philip Rosenthal8, Dumitru Oraseanu9, Laurie Reynolds10, Alexandra Thiry10 andPeter Ackerman10
Article first published online: 16 OCT 2015
DOI: 10.1002/hep.28015
© 2015 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Issue
Hepatology
Hepatology
Volume 63, Issue 2, pages 377–387, February 2016
Article has an altmetric score of 5
1 Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
2 National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
3 Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
4 Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, MD
5 Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
6 Asan Medical Center Children's Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
7 The Hospital For Sick Children, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
8 University of California, San Francisco, CA
9 Grigore Alexandrescu Emergency Hospital for Children, Bucharest, Romania
10 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT
*Address reprint requests to: Maureen M. Jonas, M.D., Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: [email protected]; fax: +1-617-730-0716.
Potential conflict of interest: Dr. Jonas consults for and received grants from Gilead. She received grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche. Dr. Chang received grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead. Dr. Schwarz consults for and received grants from Roche. Dr. Kelly consults for and received grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Ling received grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Rosenthal consults for and received grants from Gilead. He consults for Hyperion and AbbVie and received grants from Roche, Vertex, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Reynolds is employed by and owns stock in Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Ackerman is employed by and owns stock in Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Thiry is employed by and owns stock in Bristol-Myers Squibb.
This work is registered under study registration number: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01079806.
This ongoing, randomized phase III study assesses the safety and efficacy of entecavir versus placebo in nucleos(t)ide-naïve children (2 to <18 years) with hepatitis B envelope antigen (HBeAg)-positive chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Blinded treatment was administered for a minimum of 48 weeks. After week 48, patients with HBeAg seroconversion continued blinded treatment; those without switched to open-label entecavir. The primary endpoint was HBeAg seroconversion and HBV DNA <50 IU/mL at week 48. A total of 180 patients were randomized (2:1) and treated. Baseline median age was 12 years, with approximately 50% of children ages >12 to <18, and 25% each ages ≥2 to ≤6 and >6 to ≤12. Rates for the primary endpoint at week 48 were significantly higher with entecavir than placebo (24.2% [29 of 120] vs. 3.3% [2 of 60]; P = 0.0008). Furthermore, higher response rates were observed with entecavir compared with placebo for the key week 48 secondary endpoints: HBV DNA <50 IU/mL (49.2% [59 of 120] vs. 3.3% [2 of 60]; P < 0.0001); alanine aminotransferase normalization (67.5% [81 of 120] vs. 23.3% [14 of 60]; P < 0.0001); and HBeAg seroconversion (24.2% [29 of 120] vs. 10.0% [6 of 60]; P = 0.0210). Among entecavir-randomized patients, there was an increase in all efficacy endpoints between weeks 48 and 96, including an increase from 49% to 64% in virological suppression. The cumulative probability of emergent entecavir resistance through years 1 and 2 of entecavir was 0.6% and 2.6%, respectively. Entecavir was well tolerated with no observed differences in adverse events or changes in growth compared with placebo.
Conclusion: In childhood CHB, entecavir demonstrated superior antiviral efficacy to placebo with a favorable safety profile. These results support the use of entecavir as a therapeutic option in children and adolescents with CHB. (Hepatology 2016;63:377–387)
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