A randomized, open-label clinical study of combined pegylated interferon Alfa-2a (40KD) and entecavir treatment for hepatitis B "e" antigen-positive chronic hepatitis B

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BACKGROUND: Treatment with pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) alfa-2a (40KD) results in hepatitis B "e" antigen (HBeAg) seroconversion 6 months after treatment in up to 36% of HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B patients. This study explored the efficacy of a novel combination of peg-IFN alfa-2a and entecavir (ETV), a potent nucleoside analogue.

METHODS: In total, 218 treatment-naive Chinese HBeAg-positive patients were randomized to peg-IFN alfa-2a (180 µg/week) for 48 weeks, either as monotherapy (n = 72), or with 24 weeks of ETV (0.5 mg/daily) added at week 13 (ETV add-on, n = 73), or pretreatment with a 24-week course of ETV, starting peg-IFN alfa-2a at week 21 (ETV pretreatment, n = 73). The primary endpoint was reduction in quantitative HBeAg from baseline to 24 weeks posttreatment.

RESULTS: Significant reductions in HBeAg from baseline were achieved in all treatment groups 24 weeks posttreatment; reductions were comparable across treatment arms (shown as log10 Paul Ehrlich international units [PEIU]/mL): monotherapy: -1.4 (SD, 1.8); ETV add-on: -1.6 (SD, 1.8); ETV pretreatment: -1.3 (SD, 1.7). Rates of HBeAg seroconversion were similar across treatment groups posttreatment (monotherapy: 22 [31%]; ETV add-on: 18 [25%]; ETV pretreatment: 19 [26%]). Significantly greater reductions of hepatitis B virus DNA were achieved with ETV add-on while on treatment, but were not sustained posttreatment. Safety profiles were comparable between treatment groups; adverse events were experienced by 62 (86%) monotherapy, 65 (89%) ETV add-on, and 58 (81%) ETV pretreatment patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Neither ETV add-on nor ETV pretreatment demonstrated superiority compared with 48 weeks of peg-IFN alfa-2a monotherapy. The optimal treatment strategy using nucleos(t)ide analogues and peg-IFN alfa-2a remains to be determined. Clinical Trials Registration. NCT00614471.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59

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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 59(2014), 12 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 1714-23

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xie, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Huijuan [VerfasserIn]
Bai, Xuefan [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Shuhuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jian-Jie [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jifang [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Yao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chengwei [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Henry Lik-Yuen [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Mianzhi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3WJQ0SDW1A
5968Y6H45M
5Z93L87A1R
Antiviral Agents
Clinical pharmacology
Entecavir
Guanine
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B e Antigens
Immunoglobulin G
Immunoglobulin M
Interferon-alpha
Journal Article
Liver
Peginterferon alfa-2a
Polyethylene Glycols
Q46947FE7K
Randomized Controlled Trial
Recombinant Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Viral hepatitis

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Date Completed 01.09.2015

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00614471

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciu702

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM241607833