1. Developmental consequences of children born from mothers with telbivudine treatment during late pregnancy: A prospective study with 3-year follow-up
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Ying Zhang, Wei-Hua Cao, Ming-hui Li, Yao Xie, Xiuzhen Cao, Ying Wang, Zhan Zeng, Fangfang Sun, Wei Yi, and Gang Wan
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Microbiology (medical) ,safety ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,HBsAg ,Immunology ,Gross motor skill ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Antiviral Agents ,Nervous System ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Child Development ,Hepatitis B, Chronic ,Telbivudine ,medicine ,Humans ,Prospective Studies ,Pregnancy Complications, Infectious ,neurological development ,030304 developmental biology ,Hepatitis ,Hepatitis B virus ,0303 health sciences ,Pregnancy ,030306 microbiology ,Infant ,Lamivudine ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical ,Treatment Outcome ,Infectious Diseases ,HBeAg ,Motor Skills ,Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects ,DNA, Viral ,telbivudine ,Female ,Parasitology ,chronic hepatitis b ,pregnancy ,Follow-Up Studies ,Research Article ,Research Paper ,medicine.drug - Abstract
We prospectively investigated the neurological development in infants born from mothers treated with telbivudine (LdT) in the third trimester for prevention of hepatitis B virus (HBV) mother-to-infant transmission. Mothers with high HBV load were assigned to either the LdT group (n = 81, 600 mg of LdT each day from gestational week 28 to delivery) or the Control group (n = 39, untreated). Their infants were followed for 36 months to assess physical and neurological developments with Gesell Developmental Schedule tools. At 12 months after birth, the mean scores in the LdT group for gross motor, fine motor, adaptive, linguistic, and personal social domains were similar to those in the Control group. At 36 months, infants in the LdT group had higher mean scores for gross motor than the Control group (98.42 ± 9.69 vs. 94.54 ± 7.48, P = 0.03). In the LdT group, the rates of normal development were higher for gross motor (96.30% vs. 82.05% P = 0.01) and lower for adaptive (74.07% vs. 92.31% P = 0.02). Multivariate regression analyses showed that exposure to LdT during pregnancy was independently associated with infant’s development in gross motor (OR 6.49, 95% CI 1.37–30.20, P = 0.02) and adaptive (OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.05–0.71, P = 0.01) at 36 months. These results suggest that prenatal LdT exposure might affect neurological development in long-term observation. Abbreviations: LdT: telbivudine; HBV: hepatitis B virus; HBsAg: hepatitis B surface antigen; HBeAg: hepatitis Be antigen; HbsAb: hepatitis B surface antibody; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; NA: nucleoside/nucleotide analog; LAM: lamivudine; MTCT: mother-to-child transmission; GDS: Gesell Developmental Schedule; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; DQ: developmental quotient; RMB: renminbi; BMI: body mass Index; HBIG: hepatitis B immunoglobulin.
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- 2021