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Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection still represents a major public health problem, as it is thought to be responsible for more than 350,000 deaths around the globe on a yearly basis. Fortunately, successful eradication of the virus has been associated with improved clinical outcome and reduce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4798156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27006761 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7399.1 |
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description | Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection still represents a major public health problem, as it is thought to be responsible for more than 350,000 deaths around the globe on a yearly basis. Fortunately, successful eradication of the virus has been associated with improved clinical outcome and reduced mortality rates. In the past few years, treatment has improved considerably by the implementation of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). From 2014 onwards, sofosbuvir, simeprevir, daclatasvir, ledipasvir, paritaprevir, ombitasvir, and dasabuvir have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA). Regimens with various combinations of these new drugs, without the use of interferon (IFN), proved to be very effective and well tolerated, even among patients with advanced liver disease. Moreover, treatment duration could be shortened to 12 weeks in the majority of patients. The high costs of these DAAs, however, limit the availability of IFN-free therapy worldwide. Even in wealthy countries, it is deemed necessary to prioritize DAA treatment in order to limit the immediate impact on the health budget. As patients with advanced liver disease are in most need of HCV clearance, many countries decided to treat those patients first. In the current review, we focus on the currently available IFN-free treatment options for patients with cirrhosis. We discuss the virological efficacy as well as the clinical relevance of these regimens among this specific patient population. |
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spelling | pubmed-47981562016-03-21 Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease Maan, Raoel van der Meer, Adriaan J. F1000Res Review Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection still represents a major public health problem, as it is thought to be responsible for more than 350,000 deaths around the globe on a yearly basis. Fortunately, successful eradication of the virus has been associated with improved clinical outcome and reduced mortality rates. In the past few years, treatment has improved considerably by the implementation of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). From 2014 onwards, sofosbuvir, simeprevir, daclatasvir, ledipasvir, paritaprevir, ombitasvir, and dasabuvir have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA). Regimens with various combinations of these new drugs, without the use of interferon (IFN), proved to be very effective and well tolerated, even among patients with advanced liver disease. Moreover, treatment duration could be shortened to 12 weeks in the majority of patients. The high costs of these DAAs, however, limit the availability of IFN-free therapy worldwide. Even in wealthy countries, it is deemed necessary to prioritize DAA treatment in order to limit the immediate impact on the health budget. As patients with advanced liver disease are in most need of HCV clearance, many countries decided to treat those patients first. In the current review, we focus on the currently available IFN-free treatment options for patients with cirrhosis. We discuss the virological efficacy as well as the clinical relevance of these regimens among this specific patient population. F1000Research 2016-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4798156/ /pubmed/27006761 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7399.1 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Maan R and van der Meer AJ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Maan, Raoel van der Meer, Adriaan J. Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title | Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title_full | Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title_fullStr | Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title_short | Recent advances in managing chronic HCV infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
title_sort | recent advances in managing chronic hcv infection: focus on therapy in patients with severe liver disease |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4798156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27006761 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7399.1 |
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