An Update on Treatment of Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection: 2011 Practice Guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
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The standard of care (SOC) therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been the use of both peginterferon (PegIFN) and ribavirin (RBV) as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Hepatology.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boceprevir & Telaprevir.read more
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Patients with HCV and F1 and F2 fibrosis stage: treat now or wait?
TL;DR: The factors which should be considered when deciding whether to treat a patient with HCV and mild fibrosis with the current SOC now, or to delay treatment until less toxic and/or more effective therapy is available is discussed.
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Requirement for Chloride Channel Function during the Hepatitis C Virus Life Cycle
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that HCV increases intracellular hepatic chloride (Cl−) influx that can be inhibited by selective Cl− channel blockers, and this represents the first observation of the involvement of Cl− channels during the HCV life cycle.
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Successful treatment of chronic hepatitis C with triple therapy in an opioid agonist treatment program
Alain H. Litwin,Irene Soloway,Lauren Cockerham-Colas,Sheila Reynoso,Moonseong Heo,Christopher Tenore,Robert J. Roose +6 more
TL;DR: On-site HCV treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents is effective in opioid agonist treatment patients including patients who are actively using drugs, and future interferon-free regimens will likely be even more effective.
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Hepatitis C virus markers in infection by hepatitis C virus: In the era of directly acting antivirals.
Nicola Coppola,Mariantonietta Pisaturo,Rosa Zampino,Margherita Macera,Caterina Sagnelli,Evangelista Sagnelli +5 more
TL;DR: The use of the markers of HCV infection and replication, of laboratory and instrumental data to define the stage of the disease and of predictors, if any, of response to therapy in the DAA era are focused on.
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Virology of hepatitis C virus infection.
TL;DR: Virological tools are used in clinical practice to diagnose acute and chronic HCV infection, to decide who should be treated, to select the optimal therapy and to monitor treatment responses in order to tailor treatment duration.
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Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
Michael W. Fried,Mitchell L. Shiffman,K. Rajender Reddy,C. Smith,George Marinos,Fernando L. Gonçales,Dieter Häussinger,Moisés Diago,Giampiero Carosi,Daniel Dhumeaux,Antonio Craxì,A. Lin,Joseph Hoffman,Jian Yu +13 more
TL;DR: In patients with chronic hepatitis C, once-weekly peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin was tolerated as well as interferonAlfa- 2b plus Ribavirin and produced significant improvements in the rate of sustained virologic response, as compared with interfer on alfa -2b plus ribvirin or pegin terferonalfa-3a alone.
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Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial.
Michael P. Manns,John G. McHutchison,Stuart C. Gordon,Vinod K. Rustgi,Mitchell L. Shiffman,Robert Reindollar,Zachary Goodman,Kenneth Koury,Mei Hsiu Ling,Janice K. Albrecht +9 more
TL;DR: In patients with chronic hepatitis C, the most effective therapy is the combination of peginterferon alfa-2b 1.5 microg/kg per week plus ribavirin, and this randomised trial found that the benefit is mostly achieved in patients with HCV genotype 1 infections.
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Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance.
Dongliang Ge,Jacques Fellay,Alexander J. Thompson,Jason Simon,Kevin V. Shianna,Thomas J. Urban,Erin L. Heinzen,Ping Qiu,Arthur H. Bertelsen,Andrew J. Muir,Mark S. Sulkowski,John G. McHutchison,David Goldstein +12 more
TL;DR: It is reported that a genetic polymorphism near the IL28B gene, encoding interferon-λ-3 (IFN-α-2a) is associated with an approximately twofold change in response to treatment, both among patients of European ancestry and African-Americans.
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Peginterferon-alpha2a and ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C: a randomized study of treatment duration and ribavirin dose.
Stephanos J. Hadziyannis,Sette H,Timothy R. Morgan,Balan,Moisés Diago,Patrick Marcellin,G. Ramadori,Henry C. Bodenheimer,David I. Bernstein,Mario Rizzetto,Stefan Zeuzem,Paul J. Pockros,A. Lin,Andrew M. Ackrill +13 more
TL;DR: Treatment with peginterferon-alpha2a and ribavirin may be individualized by genotype, and in patients infected with HCV genotype 1, 48 weeks of treatment was statistically superior to 24 weeks and standard-dose ribvirin was statistically inferior to low-dose Ribavirin.
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Telaprevir for Previously Untreated Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Ira M. Jacobson,John G. McHutchison,Geoffrey Dusheiko,Adrian M. Di Bisceglie,K. Rajender Reddy,Natalie Bzowej,Patrick Marcellin,Andrew J. Muir,Peter Ferenci,Robert Flisiak,Jacob George,Mario Rizzetto,Daniel Shouval,Ricard Sola,R. Terg,Eric M. Yoshida,Nathalie Adda,Leif Bengtsson,Abdul J. Sankoh,Tara L. Kieffer,Shelley George,Robert S. Kauffman,Stefan Zeuzem,Vertex Phar +23 more
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.
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