1. Past history of hepatocellular carcinoma is an independent risk factor of treatment failure in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection receiving direct-acting antivirals
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Masakazu Kobayashi, Susumu Morita, Kaname Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Ichijo, Makiko Matsumura, Satoru Joshita, Akihiro Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Inada, Chiharu Miyabayashi, Atsushi Kamijo, Ayumi Sugiura, Akihiro Iijima, Yuriko Koike, Hiromitsu Mori, Soichiro Shibata, Kiyoshi Furuta, Satoko Kako, Yukio Gibo, Naoyuki Fujimori, Shuichi Wada, Aki Takeuchi, Eiji Tanaka, Tomoo Yamazaki, Takefumi Kimura, Toshihisa Tsukadaira, Koji Igarashi, Yoko Usami, Michiharu Komatsu, Takeji Umemura, Kendo Kiyosawa, and Atsushi Maruyama
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Adult ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ,Adolescent ,Hepatitis C virus ,medicine.disease_cause ,Antiviral Agents ,Gastroenterology ,Virus ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Fibrosis ,Virology ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Treatment Failure ,Risk factor ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,Hepatology ,business.industry ,Liver Neoplasms ,Odds ratio ,Hepatitis C, Chronic ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,digestive system diseases ,Confidence interval ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Hepatocellular carcinoma ,Female ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Alpha-fetoprotein ,business ,Blood Chemical Analysis - Abstract
Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment can achieve a high sustained virological response (SVR) rate in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection regardless of a history of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC [+]). We examined 838 patients (370 men, median age: 69 years) who were treated with DAAs for comparisons of clinical findings between 79 HCC (+) (9.4%) and 759 HCC (-) (90.6%) patients and associations with treatment outcome. Male frequency was significantly higher in the HCC (+) group (60.8% vs 42.4%, P = 0.006). There were significant differences between the HCC (+) and HCC (-) groups for platelet count (115 vs 152 ×109 /L, P < 0.001), baseline alpha fetoprotein (AFP) (9.9 vs 4.5 ng/mL, P < 0.001) and the established fibrosis markers of FIB-4 index (4.7 vs 3.0, P < 0.001), AST-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) (1.1 vs 0.7, P = 0.009), M2BPGi (3.80 vs 1.78 COI, P < 0.001) and autotaxin (1.91 vs 1.50 mg/L, P < 0.001). The overall SVR rate was 94.7% and significantly lower in the HCC (+) group (87.3 vs 95.5%, P = 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that a history of HCC was independently associated with DAA treatment failure (odds ratio: 3.56, 95% confidence interval: 1.32-9.57, P = 0.01). In conclusion, patients with chronic HCV infection and prior HCC tended to exhibit more advanced disease progression at DAA commencement. HCC (+) status at the initiation of DAAs was significantly associated with adverse therapeutic outcomes. DAA treatment for HCV should therefore be started as early as possible, especially before complicating HCC.
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- 2018
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