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Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 21;7:42879. doi: 10.1038/srep42879.
Early hepatitis B surface antigen decline predicts treatment response to entecavir in patients with chronic hepatitis B.Peng CY1,2, Lai HC2,3, Su WP2, Lin CH2, Chuang PH2, Chen SH1,2, Chen CH2.
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- 1School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
- 2Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
- 3School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
AbstractEarly declines in serum hepatitis B surface (HBsAg) levels, their optimal cutoffs, and association with therapeutic endpoints in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients receiving entecavir treatment remain unclear. We prospectively enrolled 529 patients (195 hepatitis B e antigen [HBeAg]-positive and 334 HBeAg-negative) with a median treatment duration of 49.2 months. Median HBsAg levels declined significantly in both groups at Month 3, but only at Months 6-12 in the HBeAg-negative group. Both groups exhibited a significant HBsAg decline with each successive year of treatment. An HBsAg decline of ≥75% from baseline, assessed at Months 3 and 12 of treatment in the HBeAg-positive and -negative patients, respectively, independently predicted a virological response and HBeAg seroconversion in the HBeAg-positive patients, an HBsAg level of <100 IU/mL in the HBeAg-negative patients, and HBsAg loss in all the patients during treatment. HBsAg levels of <3,000 IU/mL at baseline combined with an HBsAg decline of ≥75% from baseline provided a predictive algorithm for HBsAg loss (positive and negative predictive values: 70% and 100%, respectively) during 5 years of treatment. The proposed cutoffs for defining an HBsAg decline may assist clinicians in early assessments of treatment responses in genotype B-infected or C-infected CHB patients receiving entecavir therapy.
PMID:28220833DOI:10.1038/srep42879
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