Disease Progression in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients under Long-Term Antiviral Therapy

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We investigated factors associated with the disease progression and development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients during long-term oral nucleos(t)ide analog (NA) therapy.

METHODS: This retrospective study included 524 naive CHB patients who received oral NA therapy for more than 48 weeks between January 2003 and December 2007. The primary outcome was 5-year cumulative probability of disease progression and HCC development. Disease progression was defined as cirrhosis development, cirrhotic complications, HCC or liver-related mortality.

RESULTS: For the 524 patients, the cumulative probabilities of disease progression and HCC development at 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years were 1.1%, 6.3%, 9.0%, 11.6%, and 16.2% and 0.2%, 1.8%, 3.6%, 5.8%, and 9.3%, respectively. In multivariate analysis, age >50 years (hazard ratio [HR], 1.05) and cirrhosis (HR, 2.95) were significant factors for disease progression. Similarly, age >50 years (HR, 1.05), family history of HCC (HR, 5.48), and cirrhosis (HR, 17.16) were significant factors for HCC development. Importantly, longer duration (>12 months) of maintained virological response (<20 IU/mL) reduced the risks of disease progression (HR, 0.19) and HCC development (HR, 0.09).

CONCLUSIONS: Longer duration of maintained virological response significantly reduces the risk of disease progression or HCC development in CHB patients undergoing long-term oral NA therapy.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Gut Liver. 2015 May 23;9(3):265-6. - PMID 25918259

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Gut and liver - 9(2015), 3 vom: 23. Mai, Seite 395-404

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moon, Jin Chang [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Seong Hun [VerfasserIn]
Kim, In Hee [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Chang Hun [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sang Wook [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Seung Ok [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Soo Teik [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Dae-Ghon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
Antiviral therapy
Carcinoma, hepatocellular
Disease progression
Hepatitis B, chronic
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.01.2016

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print

CommentIn: Gut Liver. 2015 May 23;9(3):265-6. - PMID 25918259

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.5009/gnl14170

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM244264945