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- Title
Results of Entecavir treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
- Authors
Köse, Şükran; Türken, Melda; Tatar, Bengü Gireniz
- Abstract
Objective: This study was designed to determine the efficacy and safety of Entecavir (ETV) after 96 weeks treatment in patients with chronic viral hepatitis B (CHB). Methods: Thirty-eight patients were included into the study. The criteria for starting ETV treatment were as follows: elevated ALT levels >upper limit of normal (ULN) two times, with HBV-DNA levels ⩾5 log10 copies/ml (⩾20000 IU/mL), in HBe Ag positive patients, ⩾4log10 copies/ml (⩾2000IU/mL) in HBe Ag negative patients and liver damage was confirmed by histopathology (Knodell HAI ⩾4 or fibrosis ⩾1). Patients were followed up every 12 weeks by virological and biochemical tests. Results: Twenty-four of 38 patients (63.2%) were male. Mean age of patients were 38.6 years, 14 of them were HBeAg positive (36.8%). At baseline, median ALT level was detected as 106.7 IU/ml, median HBV DNA levels were 4.8 × 107 copy/ml, and mean Knodell HAI score was nine. Eleven of 14 HBe Ag positive patients (78.6%) were treatment-naïve. No resistance mutation was determined during treatment. Biochemical responses (BR) at 48th and 96th week were 100% and virologic response (VR) were 57.1%, and 50%, respectively. Serological response (SR) at 48th and 96th weeks were 35.7% and 42.8% respectively. Fifteen (62.5%) of 24 HBe Ag negative patients were treatment-naïve; two patients were detected to have lamivudine resistance mutation. At 48th and 96th week, BR was 95.8%, and 100%, respectively; and VR were 83.3% both. Conclusion: In our study, virologic response was significantly high after two years of therapy with Entecavir in HBe Ag negative patients.
- Subjects
HEPATITIS B treatment; ANTIVIRAL agents; DRUG efficacy; HISTOPATHOLOGY; DNA
- Publication
Journal of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2013, Vol 3, Issue 4, p176
- ISSN
2146-3158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5799/ahinjs.02.2013.04.0104