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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2012

Long-term treatment outcomes of clevudine in antiviral-naive patients with chronic hepatitis B.

Suk Bae Kim, Il Han Song, Young Min Kim, Ran Noh, Ha Yan Kang, Hyang Ie Lee, Hyeon Yoong Yang, An Na Kim, Hee Bok Chae, Sae Hwan Lee and 7 more

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Suk Bae KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan 330-715, South Korea.
Il Han Song
Young Min Kim
Ran Noh
Ha Yan Kang
Hyang Ie Lee
Hyeon Yoong Yang
An Na Kim
Hee Bok Chae
Sae Hwan Lee
Hong Soo Kim
Tae Hee Lee
Young Woo Kang
Eaum Seok Lee
Seok Hyun Kim
Byung Seok Lee
Heon Young Lee
Dankook University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo evaluate the treatment outcomes of clevudine compared with entecavir in antiviral-naive patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

methodsWe retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of CHB patients treated with clevudine 30 mg/d and compared their clinical outcomes with patients treated with entecavir 0.5 mg/d. The biochemical response, as assessed by serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity, virologic response, as assessed by serum hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV DNA) titer, serologic response, as assessed by hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) status, and virologic breakthrough with genotypic mutations were assessed.

resultsTwo-hundred and fifty-four patients [clevudine (n = 118) vs entecavir (n = 136)] were enrolled. In clevudine-treated patients, the cumulative rates of serum ALT normalization were 83.9% at week 48 and 91.5% at week 96 (80.9% and 91.2% in the entecavir group, respectively), the mean titer changes in serum HBV DNA were -6.03 and -6.55 log(10) copies/mL (-6.35 and -6.86 log(10) copies/mL, respectively, in the entecavir group), and the cumulative non-detection rates of serum HBV DNA were 72.6% and 83.1% (74.4% and 83.8%, respectively, in the entecavir group). These results were similar to those of entecavir-treated patients. The cumulative rates of HBeAg seroconversion were 21.8% at week 48 and 25.0% at week 96 in patients treated with clevudine, which was similar to patients treated with entecavir (22.8% and 27.7%, respectively). The virologic breakthrough in the clevudine group occurred in 9 (7.6%) patients at weeks 48 and 15 (12.7%) patients at week 96, which primarily corresponded to genotypic mutations of rtM204I and/or rtL180M. There was no virologic breakthrough in the entecavir group.

conclusionIn antiviral-naive CHB patients, long-term treatment outcomes of clevudine were not inferior to those of entecavir, except for virologic breakthrough.

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AdultAlanine TransaminaseAntiviral AgentsArabinofuranosyluracilDNA, ViralFemaleGenotypeGuanineHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B virusHumansMaleMiddle AgedMutationRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAlanine TransaminaseAntiviral AgentsArabinofuranosyluracilclevudineDNA, ViralentecavirGuanineChronic hepatitis BClevudineEntecavirHepatitis B virusTreatment outcomes

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PMID23322992
PMCPMC3531678
OpenAlexW1495679797

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