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Filter by:The outcome of treatment of chronic hepatitis B is determined by viral and host interaction, thus the combination therapy of immunomodulator (PEG-IFN) and potent antiviral drug (entecavir) should improve the response rate. In addition, the simultaneous assessment of viral and host genetic factors associated with SVR may help to identify predictors of treatment outcomes, which will in turn significant reduce the cost/effect of therapy
Evaluate the safety and efficacy of Peginterferon alfa-2a following Entecavir compared with Peginterferon alfa-2a monotherapy in patient with HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B. - Increased HBeAg seroconversion rate - Increased HBsAg loss rate - To define the best treatment condition for chronic HBV hepatitis patients
The purpose of this study is to study the role of the Immune System in causing arthritis in patients with Hepatitis C.
The aims of this three-year study are to explore symptom experience and its related factors for the patients with chronic hepatitis C Infection receiving interferon-α with ribavirin for 24 weeks and further to predict the relative risk of failure or occurence of severe side effects which interrupt the treatment.
To investigate the influence of hepatic steatosis on the anti-viral effect of entecavir in chronic hepatitis B patients.
This study will evaluate the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a customized, interactive web-based HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and hepatitis prevention intervention as compared to a traditional, educator-delivered prevention intervention. Both interventions will be offered to youth enrolled in outpatient, community-based substance abuse treatment at our collaborating treatment facilities. Outcomes to be measured include accurate HIV/disease prevention knowledge, intentions to engage in safer sex, actual HIV risk behavior, attitudes toward safer sex and self-reported substance use. The web-delivered intervention under evaluation has the potential to deliver evidence-based content at low cost without increasing demands on treatment staff time or training needs.
Entecavir demonstrated superior virologic and biochemical benefits over lamivudine and adefovir. The investigators evaluated the effect of entecavir combined Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) with lamivudine or adefovir or both combined HBIG in Chinese liver transplantation patients with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) related diseases.
The purpose of this study is to compare how safe, tolerable, and effective a novel drug, raltegravir, is to a commonly used combination, atazanavir/ritonavir, as initial treatment in HIV/Hepatitis C co-infected injecting drug users on a methadone program.
Abstract Telbivudine is a potent inhibitor of HBV but, due to a low genetic barrier to resistance, a high incidence of resistance has been observed in patients with high baseline levels of replication and in those with detectable HBV DNA after 24 weeks of therapy (A1). Telbivudine might be used in patients with good predictors of response (HBV DNA <2 X 106 IU/ ml, i.e. approximately 107 copies/ ml, or 6.3 log 10 IU/ ml at baseline) with verification of HBV DNA suppression below detection in real time PCR assay at 24 weeks.(EASL Guidelines for HBV 2009) The therapy of Pegylated-interferon-alpha-2a is considered as the standard of care for patients with chronic hepatitis b viral infection. However, recent study by Buster et al showed that a sustained viral response (SVR less than 2000 iu.ml at 6 months after treatment)) is obtained in 8 % of patients with genotype D, 30% genotype A, and 20-25% genotypes B or C (47). Vitamin D is a potent immune-modulator; and has been shown to improve SVR in combination with peg interferone in patients with chronic HCV viral infection (48). The impact of vitamin D on virologic response rates of interferon-based treatment of CHB is unknown. The aim of this study therefore was to assess whether Vitamin D, added to the conventional peg therapy in CHB, or to nucleotide analogues could improve the treatment efficacy
This study aim to evaluate the non-inferiority of sustained virologic response in peginterferon alfa-2a and weight-based ribavirin for 16 weeks compare with standard treatment duration of 24 weeks in patients who achieved rapid virologic response with genotype 2 CHC.