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Abstract
Objective Data regarding the real-world effectiveness and safety of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (SOF/VEL) with or without low-dose ribavirin (RBV) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and severe renal impairment (RI) are limited. We evaluated the performance of SOF/VEL with or without low-dose RBV in HCV-infected patients with chronic kidney disease stage 4 or 5.
Design 191 patients with compensated (n=181) and decompensated (n=10) liver diseases receiving SOF/VEL (400/100 mg/day) alone and SOF/VEL with low-dose RBV (200 mg/day) for 12 weeks were retrospectively recruited at 15 academic centres in Taiwan. The effectiveness was determined by sustained virological response at off-treatment week 12 (SVR12) in evaluable (EP) and per-protocol populations (PP). The safety profiles were assessed.
Results The SVR12 rates by EP and PP analyses were 94.8% (95% CI 90.6% to 97.1%) and 100% (95% CI 97.9% to 100%). In patients with compensated liver disease, the SVR12 rates were 95.0% and 100% by EP and PP analyses. In patients with decompensated liver disease, the SVR12 rates were 90.0% and 100% by EP and PP analyses. Ten patients who failed to achieve SVR12 were attributed to non-virological failures. Among the 20 serious adverse events (AEs), none were judged related to SOF/VEL or RBV. The AEs occurring in ≥10% included fatigue (14.7%), headache (14.1%), nausea (12.6%), insomnia (12.0%) and pruritus (10.5%). None had ≥grade 3 total bilirubin or alanine aminotransferase elevations.
Conclusion SOF/VEL with or without low-dose RBV is effective and well-tolerated in HCV-infected patients with severe RI.
- hepatitis C virus
- direct acting antiviral
- sofosbuvir
- velpatasvir
- chronic kidney disease
- renal impairment
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Contributors Conception and design: C-HL, J-HK; analysis and interpretation of data: C-HL; drafting of the article: C-HL, J-HK; critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: C-HL, C-YC, W-WS, K-CT, C-CL, C-JL, J-JC, C-YP, Y-LS, S-SY, C-SH, K-JH, C-YC, M-CT, W-YK, Y-JF, P-YC, P-YS, C-WT, J-JH, P-LL, H-CL, T-YH, C-HC, Y-JH, F-JL, C-CC, J-HK; final approval of the article: C-HL, C-YC, W-WS, K-CT, C-CL, C-JL, J-JC, C-YP, Y-LS, S-SY, C-SH, K-JH, C-YC, M-CT, W-YK, Y-JF, P-YC, P-YS, C-WT, J-JH, P-LL, H-CL, T-YH, C-HC, Y-JH, F-JL, C-CC, J-HK; provision of study materials or patients: C-HL, C-YC, W-WS, K-CT, C-CL, C-JL, J-JC, C-YP, Y-LS, S-SY, C-SH, K-JH, C-YC, M-CT, W-YK, Y-JF, P-YC, P-YS, C-WT, J-JH, P-LL, H-CL, T-YH, C-HC, Y-JH, F-JL, C-CC, J-HK; statistical expertise: C-HL; administrative, technical, or logistic support: C-HL, J-HK; collection and assembly of data: C-HL.
Funding Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (106-2314-B-002-138-MY3, 107-2314-B-002-038-MY2).
Competing interests C-HL: advisory board for Abbvie, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme; speaker’s bureau for Abbott, Abbvie, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme; research grant from Abbvie, Gilead Science, Merck Sharp & Dohme. S-SY: advisory board for Abbvie, Roche, Ipsen; speaker’s bureau for Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Ipsen, Merck Sharp & Dohme. P-YC: advisory board for Abbvie, Novartis, Roche; J-HK: advisory board for Abbott, Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Roche; speaker’s bureau for Abbott, Abbvie, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Roche. All other authors declare no competing interests.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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