GES : A validated simple score to predict the risk of HCC in patients with HCV-GT4-associated advanced liver fibrosis after oral antivirals

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk persists after hepatitis C virus (HCV) eradication with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), particularly in patients with cirrhosis. Identifying those who are likely to develop HCC is a critical unmet medical need. Our aim is to develop a score that offers individualized patient HCC risk prediction.

METHODS: This two-centre prospective study included 4400 patients, with cirrhosis and advanced fibrosis who achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR), including 2372 patients (derivation cohort). HCC-associated factors were identified by multivariable Cox regression analysis to develop a scoring model for prediction of HCC risk; and subsequently internally and externally validated in two independent cohorts of 687 and 1341 patients.

RESULTS: In the derivation cohort, the median follow-up was 23.51 ± 8.21 months, during which 109 patients (4.7%) developed HCC. Age, sex, serum albumin, α fetoprotein and pretreatment fibrosis stage were identified as risk factors for HCC. A simple predictive model (GES) score was constructed. The 2-year cumulative HCC incidence using Kaplan-Meier method was 1.2%, 3.3% and 7.1% in the low-risk, medium-risk and high-risk groups respectively. Internal and external validation showed highly significant difference among the three risk groups (P < .001) with regard to cumulative HCC risk. GES score has high predictive ability value (Harrell's C statistic 0.801), that remained robustly consistent across two independent validation cohorts (Harrell's C statistic 0.812 and 0.816).

CONCLUSION: GES score is simple with validated good predictive ability for the development of HCC after eradication of HCV and may be useful for HCC risk stratification in those patients.

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CommentIn: Liver Int. 2021 May;41(5):1152-1153. - PMID 33040449

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 40(2020), 11 vom: 27. Nov., Seite 2828-2833

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shiha, Gamal [VerfasserIn]
Waked, Imam [VerfasserIn]
Soliman, Reham [VerfasserIn]
Elbasiony, Mohamed [VerfasserIn]
Gomaa, Asmaa [VerfasserIn]
Mikhail, Nabiel N H [VerfasserIn]
Eslam, Mohammed [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
CHC
DAAs
HCC risk score
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.06.2021

Date Revised 23.06.2021

published: Print

CommentIn: Liver Int. 2021 May;41(5):1152-1153. - PMID 33040449

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/liv.14666

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315181060