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Responses are durable for up to 5 years after completion of peginterferon alfa‐2a treatment in hepatitis B e antigen‐positive patients
W.‐L. Chuang
J. Jia
H. L. Y. Chan
K.‐H. Han
T. Tanwandee
D. Tan
X. Chen
E. Gane
T. Piratvisuth
L. Chen
Q. Xie
J. J.‐Y. Sung
D. Messinger
C. Wat
G. Bakalos
Y. F. Liaw
First published: 9 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14595
The Handling Editor for this article was Professor Roy Pounder, and it was accepted for publica ... More
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Summary
Background
In the large randomised NEPTUNE study, peginterferon alfa‐2a 180 μg/wk for 48 weeks produced higher hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) seroconversion rates 24 weeks post‐treatment (36%) than a lower dose (90 μg/wk) and/or shorter duration (24 weeks) (range 14%‐26%).
Aim
To determine seroconversion rates 5 years after completion of treatment in NEPTUNE.
Methods
HBeAg‐positive patients who completed 24 weeks’ follow‐up in NEPTUNE (with peginterferon alfa‐2a 90 μg/wk × 24 weeks [group 1]; 180 μg/wk × 24 weeks [2]; 90 μg/wk × 48 weeks [3] or 180 μg/wk × 48 weeks [4]) were followed up.
Results
Three hundred and eighty three of the 544 patients in the original study were enrolled in the long‐term follow‐up study. Many patients (196 overall; more in groups 1‐3 than 4) received nucleos(t)ide analogues or immunomodulators during follow‐up, and more patients had missing data at year 5 in groups 2 and 4 (48 weeks, 50/112) than in groups 1 and 3 (24 weeks, 23/103), which confounds the planned per‐protocol analysis. HBeAg seroconversion rates in groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 at year 5 were 47.5%, 50.7%, 52.2% and 67.1%, respectively, (odds ratio for group 4 versus 1‐3: 2.02; 95% CI 1.21, 3.38), using multiple imputation methods for missing measurements.
Conclusion
Seroconversion rates are durable for up to 5 years after completion of peginterferon alfa‐2a therapy and, consistent with NEPTUNE, the results suggest that the licensed regimen (180 μg × 48 weeks) is more efficacious for HBeAg‐positive patients than a lower dose and/or shorter treatment duration.
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