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...
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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, prospective, multicenter. This study involved 47 centers in Italy. A database was prepared for the homogenous collection of the data, was used by all of the centers for data collection, and was updated continuously. All of the patients enrolled in this study were older than 18 years of age and were diagnosed with chronic infection due to hcV genotype 1. The hcV RNA testing was performed using cOBAS-Taq Man2.0(Roche, LLQ 25 IU/m L). RESULTS: All consecutively treated patients were included. Forty-seven centers enrolled 834 patients as follows: Male 64%; median age 57(range 18-78), of whom 18.3% were over 65; mean body mass index 25.6(range 16-39); genotype 1b(79.4%); diagnosis of cirrhosis(38.2%); and fibrosis F3/4(71.2%). The following drugs were used: Telaprevir(66.2%) and PEG-IFN-alpha2a(67.6%). Patients were na?ve(24.4%), relapsers(30.5%), partial responders(14.8%) and null responders(30.3%). Overall, adverse events(AEs) occurred in 617 patients(73.9%) during the treatment. Anemia was the most frequent AE(52.9% of cases), especially in cirrhotic. The therapy was stopped for 14.6% of the patients because of adverse events or virological failure(15%). Sustained virological response was achieved in 62.7% of the cases, but was 43.8% in cirrhotic patients over 65 years of age. cONcLUSION: In everyday practice, triple therapy is safe but has moderate efficacy, especially for patients over 65 years of age, with advanced fibrosis, nonresponders to peginterferon + ribavirin.
INTRODUcTION T lineage specific activation antigen 1 (TLiSA1), first reported by Burns in 1985[1], was renamed PTA1 in 1989 because of its expression on platelets as well[2]. Since 1985, a lot of investigations have b...
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INTRODUcTION T lineage specific activation antigen 1 (TLiSA1), first reported by Burns in 1985[1], was renamed PTA1 in 1989 because of its expression on platelets as well[2]. Since 1985, a lot of investigations have been done on PTA1 expression, its functions and its relationship with diseases. PTA1, mainly expressed on activated T cells, platelets and megakaryocytes lineage, was involved in signal transduction of T cell activation and differentiation as well as platelet activation and aggregation. PTA1 mAb (leo-A1) was found to stimulate activation and aggregation of platelets and inhibit differentiation of cTL.
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