Poor Response to Treatment with Peg-IFN Containing Regimens in Patients Coinfected with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus

Serpil Erol; Zulal Ozkurt; Ahmet Ozbek; Mehmet Parlak

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Poor Response to Treatment with Peg-IFN Containing Regimens in Patients Coinfected with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus

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Serpil Erol^1,*,

Zulal Ozkurt²,

Ahmet Ozbek²,

Mehmet Parlak²

1Medical School, Ataturk University, Aziziye Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, sererol@gmail.com, Turkey

2Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Medical School, Ataturk University, Turkey

Hepatitis Monthly:Vol. 9, issue 3; 224-228

Published online:Sep 30, 2009

Article type:Brief Report

Received:Apr 29, 2009

Accepted:Jul 03, 2009

How to Cite:Erol S, Ozkurt Z, Ozbek A, Parlak M. Poor Response to Treatment with Peg-IFN Containing Regimens in Patients Coinfected with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus.Hepat Mon.2009;9(3):224-228.

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Background and Aims: To investigate the clinical charcteristics and treatment response of patients with chronic coinfection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Methods: The study included nine consecutive patients with chronic HBV/HCV coinfection. Diagnosis was performed by liver biopsy and/or clinical and laboratory evaluation. Six patients received 48 weeks of pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) monotherapy or combination therapy with Peg-IFN plus ribavirin according to the dominant virus.

Results: The dominant infection was hepatitis C in six cases. Of the four patients who completed the treatment and follow-up period, only one had a sustained viral response (SVR) to HCV, but unfortunately, this was accompanied by a reactivation of HBV-DNA without flaring of hepatitis. No patient had an HBV-DNA response. Another two patients are still in the follow-up period. One of these patients had an undetectable level of HCV-RNA, and the other had an undetectable level of HBV-DNA at baseline. At the end of treatment, both HBV-DNA and HCV-RNA were negative in these patients. The HBV-DNA-negative patient showed a transient HBV-DNA positivity after clearance of HCV-RNA.

Conclusions: In the majority of HBV/HCV coinfected cases in our sample, HCV was the dominant virus. Currently, the standard treatment regimens are not effective for clearance of HBV and/or HCV. HCV clearance may induce HBV reactivation without flaring of hepatitis.

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