Kinetics of serum HBsAg and intrahepatic cccDNA during pegylated interferon therapy in patients with HBeAg‐positive and HBeAg‐negative chronic hepatitis B

This study was aimed at comparing clinical applicability of serum HBsAg quantification in relation to intrahepatic covalently closed-circular DNA (cccDNA) in patients with HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B (CHB) treated with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) monotherapy for 48 weeks. Overall, 32 and 36 patients with HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative CHB, respectively were recruited. Paired liver biopsies at baseline and end of therapy were analyzed for cccDNA. Virological response (VR) at 48 weeks post-treatment was defined as HBeAg clearance (for HBeAg-positive CHB) and HBV DNA <2,000IU/ml (for both groups). The results demonstrated that baseline levels of all viral markers were higher in the HBeAg-positive group than the HBeAg-negative group. Baseline HBsAg correlated with cccDNA in the HBeAg-positive group (r=0.452, P=0.009) but not in the HBeAg-negative group (r=0.018, P=0.919). However, the magnitude of cccDNA and HBsAg decline at end of treatment was not different between groups. The reduction of HBsAg showed a positive correlation with cccDNA decline in HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative CHB (r=0.544, P=0.001 and r=0.364, P=0.029, respectively). Overall, responders had more decline in cccDNA and HBsAg levels compared with non-responders. Patients with serum HBsAg decline of >1.0 log10IU/ml during treatment archived VR and HBsAg clearance of 80% and 30%, respectively. In conclusion, serum HBsAg represented a better surrogate marker of intrahepatic cccDNA in patients with HBeAg-positive CHB compared to those with HBeAg-negative CHB. On-treatment, HBsAg reduction of 1.0 log10IU/mL was associated with a high probability of subsequent VR and HBsAg clearance in patients receiving PEG-IFN therapy. J. Med. Virol. 89:130-138, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:89

Enthalten in:

Journal of medical virology - 89(2017), 1, Seite 130-138

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chuaypen, Natthaya [VerfasserIn]
Sriprapun, Methee [Sonstige Person]
Praianantathavorn, Kesmanee [Sonstige Person]
Payungporn, Sunchai [Sonstige Person]
Wisedopas, Naruemon [Sonstige Person]
Poovorawan, Yong [Sonstige Person]
Tangkijvanich, Pisit [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

CccDNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA
HBsAg
Hepatitis
Hepatitis B virus
Interferon
Kinetics
Pegylated‐interferon
Treatment response
Virology

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doi:

10.1002/jmv.24601

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1987073363