Darunavir/cobicistat monotherapy. Experience in a tertiary hospital

OBJECTIVE: Ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor (IP/r) monotherapy: darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) or lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) monotherapy is only provided in the major treatment guidelines in pretreated patients to prevent toxicity associated with nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), reduce costs and simplify antiretroviral treatment. To start IP/r monotherapy, according to GESIDA guidelines 2016, patients need to meet the following criteria: absence of chronic hepatitis B, plasma viral load <50 copies/ mL for at least 6 months and absence of protease inhibitors mutations or previous virologic failures to IP/r. Currently, there are no studies that evaluate the efficacy and safety of darunavir/cobicistat (DRV/COBI) monotherapy.

METHODS: This prospective study analyzed pretreated HIV patients with DRV/r monotherapy that were switched to DRV/COBI monotherapy. The aim of the study is to describe the effectiveness and safety of the DRV/COBI monotherapy.

RESULTS: Seventy-eight patients were evaluated. Patients had a median of 31.29 months of DRV/r monotherapy before DRV/COBI monotherapy. Nine of the 78 patients developed "blips" (plasma viral load: 50-200 copies/ml) and four patients had plasma viral load ≥200 copies/mL. An 83.3% (65/78) of the patients remained with undetectable plasma viral load. As for safety, there were no significant differences in lipid profile, liver function (transaminases) and renal function between DRV/r and DRV/COBI monotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS: DRV/COBI monotherapy seems to be effective and safe (lipid profile, liver and kidney function). However, it will be necessary to design specific studies comparing DRV/r vs DRV/COBI monotherapy to confirm these results.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia - 29(2016), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 308-317

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Monoterapia con darunavir/cobicistat. Experiencia en un hospital de tercer nivel

Beteiligte Personen:

Yunquera-Romero, L [VerfasserIn]
Asensi-Díez, R [VerfasserIn]
Del Rio-Valencia, J C [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz-Castillo, I [VerfasserIn]
Castaño-Carracedo, M A [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

2494G1JF75
Cobicistat
Darunavir
Drug Combinations
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Journal Article
LW2E03M5PG
Lopinavir
O3J8G9O825
Ritonavir
YO603Y8113

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 11.04.2017

Date Revised 11.04.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM26656562X