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DahariLAB
Mathematical/Computational Virology & Medicine
Modeling-based response-guided therapy for chronic hepatitis C under glecaprevir/pibrentasvir may identify patients for ultra-short treatment duration
Abstract
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We recently showed in a proof-of-concept study that real-time modeling-based response-guided therapy (RGT) can shorten hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment duration with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, elbasvir/grazoprevir and sofosbuvir/ledipasvir without compromising efficacy, confirming our retrospective modeling reports in more than 200 patients. However, retrospective modeling under pibrentasvir/glecaprevir (P/G) has yet to be evaluated. In the current study modeling HCV kinetics in 44 cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients predicts that P/G treatment might have been reduced to 4, 6 and 7 weeks in 16%, 34% and 14% of patients, respectively. These results support the further evaluation of a modeling-based RGT approach under P/G therapy.
Swikriti Dasgupta, Michio Imamura, Evan Gorstein, Takashi Nakahara, Masataka Tsuge, Alexander Churkin, David Yardeni, Ohad Etzion, Susan L. Uprichard, Danny Barash, Scott J. Cotler, Harel Dahari, Kazuaki Chayama
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