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Filter by:The main aim of this study is to test in the Icelandic population the hypothesis that a nationwide treatment program which offers effective treatment to all known cases of Hepatitis C with the aim of halting HCV (Hepatitis C virus) transmission will lead to a reduction in incidence and disease burden associated with chronic HCV infection.
We perform this study to identity efficacy and safety of Daclatasvir and Asunaprevir in real practice.
Patients with chronic hepatitis C that are under opiate substitution therapy are likely to have psychiatric comorbidities such as depression; hence an Interferon based therapy is contraindicated. Additionally many of these patients have a borderline compliance, which makes it impossible to treat them at specialized hepatological centers. An ideal opportunity to treat this patients is treatment with DAAs (Direct Acting Antiviral) which can be administered daily together with the opiate substitution therapy at a low threshold facility.
As HBsAg clearance is uncommon in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients on nucleoside analogues (NAs) therapy. The purpose of this study is to optimize HBsAg clearance in CHB Patients with sequential treatment of pegylated interferon alpha-2b and NAs.
Evaluation of the rate of sustained virological response among HBeAg-negativechronic hepatitis B patients who discontinue long-term NA therapy. During this study participants will cease their prescribed medications, this will occur with immediate effect once enrolled into the study. The duration of cessation will be indefinite, unless clinically indicated for NA therapy re-start. Participants will be monitored as per protocol following cessation, monitoring will be by clinic visit and through blood test to monitor virological response. Clinical visits will be at the intervals of week 2, week, 4, week 8, week 12, week 18, following this they will be every 3 months out to 2 years when the participant will have completed the trial. Once the participant has completed the trial they will not commence again, the aim is for an indefinite cessation of NA therapy.
The study is designed to provide long term clinical and virologic follow up in subjects infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who received interferon-based therapy or direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs)-based therapy. This long term follow up study is observational and no treatment is provided for HCV infection.
The purpose of this study is to investigate antiviral efficacy of the combination treatment with Poly IC and Entecavir and compare with the efficacy of Entecavir mono-therapy for chronic hepatitis B.
Open-labeled, Prospective, Randomized, Multi-center, Interventional, Phase IV study.
To determine the optimal time for the Tenofovir treatment of anti-Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) during the pregnancy among women with chronic HBV infection and high HBV DNA load. This is a randomized, open-label, three-arms, parallel-controlled clinical trial. Pregnant women with high HBV load and normal liver function will be treated with tenofovir during the middle or late stage of pregnancy, started from 24th gestational week, 28th gestational week and 32th gestational week through 1 month postpartum, respectively. The HBV DNA load at 40th gestational week of mothers, the intrauterine HBV infection rate of infants will be compared across the three groups.
Chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading cause of advanced liver disease worldwide. The virus successfully evades host immune detection and has highly restricted requirements for growth in vitro that for many years hampered efforts to find a safe, uncomplicated, and reliable oral antiviral therapy. Ten years after discovery, pegylated interferon-alpha and ribavirin (PR) treatment for 24-48 weeks became the standard of care (1-5). PR therapy offered limited performance and availability across the diverse spectrum of HCV disease and was fraught with excessive and often limiting side effects. The first direct acting agents (DAAs) were protease inhibitors (PIs) that were introduced in 2011 and could only be used only in combination with PR because of concerns for rapid PI viral resistance. Although the first generation PIs added increased efficacy to the PR regimen, they also added new side effects and untoward drug interactions (6-8). Sofosbuvir (SOF) is a potent nucleoside inhibitor (NI) that has recently been approved for treatment of HCV. The drug has low toxicity, high resistance barrier, and minimal drug interactions with other HCV DAAs such as PIs and anti-NS5A agents. SOF is safe and effective across different viral genotypes, disease stages, and special patient groups such as those co-infected with HIV. When used in combination with ribavirin or another DAA, SOF has revolutionized the HCV treatment spectrum and set the stage for nearly universal HCV antiviral therapy. Sustained virologic response (SVR12) for SOF plus ribavirin and pegylated interferon (PR) is 90% for genotype 1 and 85-94% for genotypes 2 and 3 (9-16). SOF plus simeprevir (protease inhibitor) showed a 94% SVR12 for genotype 1 (9-16). More so than any other anti-HCV drug developed to date, SOF offers the widest applicability for all infected patients yet can be given in a personalized regimen to maximize performance