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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to see which of two doses of PEG (polyethylene glycol) interferon alfa-2b in combination with Ribavirin for 48 weeks is more effective at elimination of hepatitis C. The primary objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of Induction PEG-Interferon alfa-2b (PEG-Intron) and Ribavirin (Rebetol) to standard PEG-Interferon alfa-2b (PEG-Intron) and Ribavirin (Rebetol) in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
This is a prospective, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in subjects with histological evidence of > 33% hepatic steatosis or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and chronic hepatitis C. Patients who have not been previously treated for hepatitis C (treatment naive) will be enrolled.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of moderate alcohol intake on liver disease caused by HCV in terms of speed of progression as compared to those not drinking alcohol.
Hepatitis C infects as many as 300,000 Canadians. Up to 25% of those infected will develop cirrhosis and be at risk for liver failure and liver cancer. Cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C is the most common reason for liver transplantation in Canada. The largest group of infected people are those who use injectable street drugs. However, people who continue to use drugs are routinely excluded from scientific studies testing new treatments for Hepatitis C and are generally recommended not to receive available treatments. Although several reasons are given to justify excluding these people from treatment, little scientific evidence is available to support it. We plan to examine how successful treatment with the current standard treatment of pegylated interferon and ribavirin is in those who continue to use injection drugs. We will compare the results of treatment of 70 active drug users to results of published clinical trials (this is a change from initial plan to compare to treatment results of 70 local) reformed drug users). Our goal is to determine whether reasonable success rates can be achieved in active drug users that would then further justify their routine treatment.
This is an open-label, randomized, comparative, multicenter, 48-week study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination treatment with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in adult subjects with a diagnosis of compensated chronic hepatitis C (hepatitis C virus (HCV)-ribonucleic acid (RNA) positive) (Genotype 1). All subjects will complete 24 weeks of treatment, termed the Pilot Treatment Program, after which all eligible subjects will be randomly assigned to one of two study groups. One group will be followed for an additional 48 weeks without study medication, while the other will be continuously treated for an additional 24 weeks and then followed for another 24 weeks without study medication. Sustained virologic response, defined as undetectable HCV-RNA in serum at the end of the follow-up period, will be measured along with other outcomes.
This study is a 24-week multicenter, randomized, double-blind control trial with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in patients with chronic hepatitis C in Japan. The primary objectives of this study are to verify the superiority of efficacy of UDCA 600 or 900mg/day to that of 150mg/day and the safety of UDCA treatment.
Peg interferon and ribavirin currently represent the standard approved association for treating patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) . The adjunction of amantadine is expected to gain about 10 % of sustained virological response (SVR) . Unfortunately, about 50 % of the patients remain relapsers or virological non responders. The main predictive factors of SVR are HCV genotype and body weight (BW). The impact of the drug pharmacological properties, particularly those of ribavirin requires complementary studies. This drug has a large distribution volume and its concentrations display large inter-individual variability. Two studies performed in HCV patients found no correlation between ribavirin dose adjusted on BW and a single ribavirin time point serum concentration at steady state. The aim of this study is to investigate the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships of ribavirin in hepatitis C patient
Depression is a common side effect of interferon in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of paroxetine, an antidepressant agent, in the prevention of depression induced by PEG-interferon given for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate efficacy and safety of addition of IL-2 to pegylated interferon alpha 2a and ribavirin in HIV-HCV coinfected patients non-responders after three months of standard therapy with pegylated interferon alpha 2a and ribavirin. IL-2 may enhance numbers and function of CD4 T lymphocytes and specific anti-HCV immune responses and could participate to the control of HCV replication
This study is designed to test two separate strategies for treatment of anemia (low hemoglobin) and neutropenia (low white blood cells) in HIV/HCV coinfected patients who are being treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin.