The effectiveness of the drug of direct antiviral action in children with chronic hepatitis C
- Authors: Churbakovа O.V.1, Akimkin V.G.2, Makashova V.V.2, Chernova O.E.3, Pechkurov D.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia
- Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being
- Samara Regional Clinical Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS
- Issue: Vol 14, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 102-107
- Section: Exchange of Experience
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2226-6976/article/view/630528
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18565/epidem.2024.14.1.%20102–7
- ID: 630528
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Abstract
Objective. Evaluation of the effectiveness and safety of treatment of children with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) with the direct-acting antiviral drug Maviret in real clinical practice.
Materials and methods. The study included 38 children with CHC aged 12 to 17 years (mean age 14.7 ± 1.9 years). The patients were followed-up in the Children’s Infectious Diseases Department of the N.A. Semashko City Clinical Hospital. Of these, 13 had previously received antiviral therapy (AVT) (interferon alfa-2b + rebetol or peginterferon alfa-2b + rebetol), the remaining 25 children did not receive AVT. All 38 patients were prescribed Maviret (treatment was carried out at the Samara Regional Clinical Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS). The duration of follow-up of patients after the end of combination therapy according to the interferon alfa-2b + rebetol regimen was 7–14 years (mean 6.4 ± 3.9 years), and immediately before the prescription of a direct-acting antiviral drug was 3–15 years (7. 6 ± 4.1 years). General and biochemical blood tests were performed, and the HCV RNA level was determined by PCR (sensitivity – 10–15 IU/ml).
Results. The dynamics of clinical, biochemical and virological parameters in children with CHC after IFN therapy, before and after the end of treatment with Maviret were considered. The duration of therapy was 8 weeks in 37 patients, and in one child with HCV genotype 3–16 weeks, since a virological response was not obtained to the previously administered combination therapy. At the end of the course of therapy, the children’s biochemical parameters normalized and a virological response was obtained after 12 weeks after completion of treatment, a sustained virological response was observed in 100% of patients. During the treatment of children with CHC with a direct-acting antiviral drug, no serious adverse events were registered.
Conclusion. Therapy with a direct-acting antiviral drug in children with CHC has shown high efficiency and safety.
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About the authors
Olga V. Churbakovа
Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: o_churbakova@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3723-1542
Cand. Med. Sci., Assistant, Department of Childhood Diseases
Russian Federation, SamaraVasiliy G. Akimkin
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being
Email: vgakimkin@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4228-9044
Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Director
Russian Federation, MoscowVera V. Makashova
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being
Email: veramakashova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0982-3527
Professor, МD, Leading Researcher, Clinical Department of Infectious Pathology
Russian Federation, MoscowOksana E. Chernova
Samara Regional Clinical Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS
Email: 23oks@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-8629-4591
Cand. Med. Sci., Chief Physician
Russian Federation, SamaraDmitry V. Pechkurov
Samara State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia
Email: dmpechkurov@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5869-2893
Professor, MD, Head, Department of Children’s Diseases
Russian Federation, SamaraReferences
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