Off-therapy Response After Stopping Entecavir or Tenofovir

Chronic Hepatitis b Clinical Trial

Official title: Comparison and Prediction of Off-therapy Response in Patients of Chronic Hepatitis B Treated With Entecavir or Tenofovir and Achieved Criteria of Stopping Therapy by APASL Guideline

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Pegylated-interferon (Peg-IFN) α-2a, entecavir (ETV) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) are current recommended first-line antiviral therapies for chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Compared with Peg-IFN therapy, nucleot(s)ide analogue (NUC) therapy has the advantages of having a potent antiviral effect, and good tolerance without side effect. The long-term safety and efficacy of ETV and TDF therapy had also been identified. However, poor durability of the effectiveness after stopping NUC therapy are encountered in the majority of patients. Previous study identified a high HBV relapse rate of over 50% in HBeAg- positive CHB patients treated with lamivudine. A recent study investigating the post-treatment durability of ETV showed that higher to 45.3% of the HBeAg-negative CHB patients happened a clinical relapse within 1-year after stopping ETV therapy. TDF is another recommended first line NUC with high potency and high genetic barrier. Although the efficacy of long-term TDF therapy had been identified, there is lack of data regarding the off-therapy response in CHB patients with TDF therapy currently. Only a small scale of patients treated with TDF were included in a recent study investigating off-therapy relapse in non-cirrhotic HBeAg-negative CHB patients after greater than 4 years of NUC therapy. In addition, the factors associated with off-therapy response are also still uncertain.

The investigators plan to enrolled 400 CHB patients who had received oral antiviral therapy ETV or TDF and achieved the Asia Pacific association of the study of liver (APASL) criteria of stopping NUC therapy. The aims of the study are to investigate the rate of HBV relapse including virological and clinical relapse in all and between patients with ETV and TDF therapy, and to identify the predictive factors of relapse.

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Hepatitis b
• Hepatitis
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis B, Chronic
• Hepatitis, Chronic

• NCT number: NCT03042481
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
• Contact: MING-LUN YEH, MD
• Phone: +886 73121101
• Email: minglunyeh@gmail.com
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2016
• Completion date: May 2021