This study was supported by grants from the Major Science and Technology Special Project of China Thirteenth Five-year Plan(No.2013ZX10002004,No.2017ZX10203202-003-007);supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Development Fund(No.17411969500);the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Fund(No.XKJS-2019HBV-06,No.KYGW-2019-32).
Background:The efficacy of entecavir(ETV)add-on peg-interferon therapy compared with ETV monotherapy in treatment-naive hepatitis B virus(HBV)patients remains controversial.We investigated whether adding peg-interfero...
The authors wish to thank all of the investigators and participating study sites,which are listed in Supplemental Table 1,as well as all the patients who participated in this study;The authors also wish to thank Michelle Belanger,MD,of Edanz Medical Writing for providing medical writing assistance,which was funded by Shanghai Roche Pharmaceuticals Ltd.The study was funded by Shanghai Roche Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Background and Aims:Data are limited on the use of pegylated-interferon alpha-2a(peg-IFNα)in Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus(HBV)infection(CHB).We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of peg-IFNαin...
The authors would like to thank the patients and their families for their contribution to this study;This study was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2008ZX10002-006,2012ZX10002007001,2017ZX10202203-007,2017ZX10202203-008);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81171561,30972584);This study was also supported in part by Shanghai Roche Pharmaceuticals Ltd;Writing assistance was provided by Stefanie Chuah,from Mudskipper Business Ltd,funded by F Hoffmann-La Roche
Background and Aims:Hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg)loss is seldom achieved with nucleos(t)ide analog(NA)therapy in chronic hepatitis B patients but may be enhanced by switching to finite pegylated-interferon(Peg-IF...
The study was supported by the Third People's Hospital of Kunming City, Kunming, China
Background and Aims:The use of additional nucleos(t)ide analogues(NAs)without cross-resistance to previously used NAs as a rescue therapy is recommended by most international guidelines for chronic hepatitis B patient...
Injection drug users(IDUs)are at risk of hepatitis C virus(HCV)infection,due to needle and syringe sharing.Chronic HCV infection is a major cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality but can be cured with antivira...
AIM: To check the safety and efficacy of boceprevir/telaprevir with peginterferon/ribavirin for hepatitis C virus(HCV) genotype 1 in the real-world settings. METHODS: This study was a non-randomized, observational, pr...
AIM To investigate peg-interferon(peg-IFN) and ribavirin(RBV) therapy in Myanmar and to predict sustained virologic response(SVR).METHODS This single-center, open-label, study was conducted in Myanmar between 2009 and...
Hepatitis C virus(HCV) has a high propensity to establish chronic infections. Failure of HCV-infected individuals to activate effective antiviral immune responses is at least in part related to HCV-induced impairment ...
Mild to moderate autoimmune thrombocytopenia(AITP) is a common finding in patients receiving interferonbased antiviral treatment, due to bone marrow suppression. Here we report the case of a patient with chronic genot...
AIM: To compare efficacy of telaprevir(TVR) and simeprevir(SMV) combined with pegylated interferon(PEG-IFN) and ribavirin(RBV) while treating chronic hepatitis C(CHC). METHODS: In all, 306 CHC patients were included i...