Category |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
Manuscript Type |
Observational Study |
Article Title |
Boceprevir or telaprevir in hepatitis C virus chronic infection: The Italian real life experience
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Manuscript Source |
Invited Manuscript |
All Author List |
CLEO Study Group; Antonio Ascione, Luigi Elio Adinolfi, Pietro Amoroso, Angelo Andriulli, Orlando Armignacco, Tiziana Ascione, Sergio Babudieri, Giorgio Barbarini, Michele Brogna, Francesco Cesario, Vincenzo Citro, Ernesto Claar, Raffaele Cozzolongo, Giuseppe D’Adamo, Emilio D’Amico, Pellegrino Dattolo, Massimo De Luca, Vincenzo De Maria, Massimo De Siena, Giuseppe De Vita, Antonio Di Giacomo, Rosanna De Marco, Giorgio De Stefano, Giulio De Stefano, Sebastiano Di Salvo, Raffaele Di Sarno, Nunzia Farella, Laura Felicioni, Basilio Fimiani, Luca Fontanella, Giuseppe Foti, Caterina Furlan, Francesca Giancotti, Giancarlo Giolitto, Tiziana Gravina, Barbara Guerrera, Roberto Gulminetti, Angelo Iacobellis, Michele Imparato, Angelo Iodice, Vincenzo Iovinella, Antonio Izzi, Alfonso Liberti, Pietro Leo, Gennaro Lettieri, Ileana Luppino, Aldo Marrone, Ettore Mazzoni, Vincenzo Messina, Roberto Monarca, Vincenzo Narciso, Lorenzo Nosotti, Adriano Maria Pellicelli, Alessandro Perrella, Guido Piai, Antonio Picardi, Paola Pierri, Grazia Pietromatera, Francesco Resta, Luca Rinaldi, Mario Romano, Angelo Rossini, Maurizio Russello, Grazia Russo, Rodolfo Sacco, Vincenzo Sangiovanni, Antonio Schiano, Antonio Sciambra, Gaetano Scifo, Filomena Simeone, Annarita Sullo, Pierluigi Tarquini, Paolo Tundo and Alfredo Vallone |
Funding Agency and Grant Number |
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Corresponding Author |
Antonio Ascione, MD, Consultant Hepatologist, Department of Medicine, Center for Liver Diseases, “Buon Consiglio” - Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Via A. Manzoni 220, 80126 Naples, Italy. antonio.ascione@paginemediche.it |
Key Words |
Boceprevir; Telaprevir; Chronic hepatitis; Antiviral therapy; Peg-interferon; Ribavirin |
Core Tip |
This study describes the role of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infections in everyday practice. Boceprevir or telaprevir, in com-bination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin, were used in this multicenter study organized by the Italian Association of Hospital Hepatologists (CLEO). A total of 834 patients were enrolled with this first available combination of direct-acting antiviral drugs. The data on the efficacies were quite similar to those produced by the registration studies; however, in the real world experience, patients were older and had more advanced liver disease. In this category of patients, the sustained virological response was less than 50%. |
Publish Date |
2016-08-03 08:12 |
Citation |
CLEO Study Group; Ascione A, Adinolfi LE, Amoroso P, Andriulli A, Armignacco O, Ascione T, Babudieri S, Barbarini G, Brogna M, Cesario F, Citro V, Claar E, Cozzolongo R, D’Adamo G, D’Amico E, Dattolo P, De Luca M, De Maria V, De Siena M, De Vita G, Di Giacomo A, De Marco R, De Stefano G, De Stefano G, Di Salvo S, Di Sarno R, Farella N, Felicioni L, Fimiani B, Fontanella L, Foti G, Furlan C, Giancotti F, Giolitto G, Gravina T, Guerrera B, Gulminetti R, Iacobellis A, Imparato M, Iodice A, Iovinella V, Izzi A, Liberti A, Leo P, Lettieri G, Luppino I, Marrone A, Mazzoni E, Messina V, Monarca R, Narciso V, Nosotti L, Pellicelli AM, Perrella A, Piai G, Picardi A, Pierri P, Pietromatera G, Resta F, Rinaldi L, Romano M, Rossini A, Russello M, Russo G, Sacco R, Sangiovanni V, Schiano A, Sciambra A, Scifo G, Simeone F, Sullo A, Tarquini P, Tundo P, Vallone A. Boceprevir or telaprevir in hepatitis C virus chronic infection: The Italian real life experience. World J Hepatol 2016; 8(22): 949-956 |
URL |
http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5182/full/v8/i22/949.htm |
DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v8.i22.949 |