Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus(HCV)remains a major health problem affecting approximately 58 million people *** the era of interferon(IFN)-based regimens,patients particularly infected with genotypes 1 a...
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Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus(HCV)remains a major health problem affecting approximately 58 million people *** the era of interferon(IFN)-based regimens,patients particularly infected with genotypes 1 and 4 achieved a low response *** implementation of direct-acting antivirals changed the landscape of HCV *** increase in effectiveness provided us with the hope of eliminating HCV as a significant public threat by *** the following years,there was an observed improvement in the treatment of HCV with genotype-specific regimens and highly effective pangenotypic options that are the most recent stage of the *** optimization of therapy was accompanied by changes in the patient profile from the beginning of the IFN-free era over *** treated with antiviral therapies were younger in successive periods,less burdened with comorbidities and comedications,more frequently treatment-naïve and had less advanced liver *** the IFN-free era,specific subpopulations such as patients with HCV/HIV coinfection,those with a history of previous treatment,patients with renal impairment or with cirrhosis had lower chances for a virologic ***,these populations should no longer be considered difficult to *** the high effectiveness of HCV therapy,there is a small percentage of patients with treatment ***,they can be effectively retreated with pangenotypic rescue regimens.
BACKGROUND It is estimated that 58 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis C virus(HCV).Patients with severe psychiatric disorders could not be treated with previously available interferon-based thera...
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BACKGROUND It is estimated that 58 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis C virus(HCV).Patients with severe psychiatric disorders could not be treated with previously available interferon-based therapies due to their unfavorable side effect *** has changed with the introduction of direct-acting antivirals(DAA),although their real-life tolerance and effectiveness in patients with different psychiatric disorders remain to be *** To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of DAA in patients with various mental *** This was a retrospective observational study encompassing 14272 patients treated with DAA for chronic hepatitis C in 22 Polish hepatology centers,including 942 individuals diagnosed with a mental disorder(anxiety disorder,bipolar affective disorder,depression,anxiety-depressive disorder,personality disorder,schizophrenia,sleep disorder,substance abuse disorder,and mental illness without a specific diagnosis).The safety and effectiveness of DAA in this group were compared to those in a group without psychiatric illness(n=13330).Antiviral therapy was considered successful if serum ribonucleic acid(RNA)of HCV was undetectable 12 wk after its completion[sustained virologic response(SVR)].Safety data,including the incidence of adverse events(AEs),serious AEs(SAEs),and deaths,and the frequency of treatment modification and discontinuation,were collected during therapy and up to 12 wk after treatment *** entire study population was included in the intent-to-treat(ITT)***-protocol(PP)analysis concerned patients who underwent HCV RNA evaluation 12 wk after completing *** Among patients with mental illness,there was a significantly higher percentage of men,treatmentnaive patients,obese,human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus-coinfected,patients with cirrhosis,and those infected with genotype 3(GT3)while infection with GT1b was more frequent in the population without psychia
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