Shelley George

TL;DR: Telaprevir with peginterferon-ribavirin was associated with significantly improved rates of sustained virologic response in patients with HCV genotype 1 infection who had not received previous treatment, with only 24 weeks of therapy administered in the majority of patients.

TL;DR: In this phase 2 study of patients infected with HCV genotype 1 who had not been treated previously, one of the three telaprevir groups had a significantly higher rate of sustained virologic response than that with standard therapy.

TL;DR: Among patients with chronic HCV infection who had not received treatment previously, a regimen of peginterferon-ribavirin for 24 weeks, with telaprevir for the first 12 weeks, was noninferior to the same regimen for 48 weeks in patients with undetectable HCV RNA at weeks 4 and 12, with an extended rapid virologic response achieved in nearly two thirds of patients.

TL;DR: In HCV-infected patients in whom initial peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin treatment failed, retreatment with telaprevir in combination with pegin terferonAlfa-1a and 2a and Ribavirin was more effective than retreatment without combination.

TL;DR: This review is focused on recent clinical trial results with specifically targeted antiviral therapy for HCV (STAT-C) protease and polymerase inhibitors, and focuses on the most advanced compounds in the HCV polymerase and HCV protease inhibitor classes.