Therapy of chronic hepatitis B: current challenges and opportunities.

Abstract:

:Better understanding of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication, natural history and the immunopathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B, together with the introduction of effective agents with different mechanisms of action are the basis for better therapeutic strategies against chronic hepatitis B. Among currently available drugs, interferon-alpha and thymosin-alpha1 have only modest efficacy (approximately 40% vs 9-20% in controls). In the past decade, lamivudine has dominated in the treatment of chronic HBV infection because it is easy to use, safe, and is effective in terms of hepatitis B e antigen and/or HBV-DNA loss, ALT normalization, and improvement in histology. The response rate increases with increasing pretherapy alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, suggesting that patients with stronger endogenous immune response against HBV have a better response to direct antiviral agents. Lamivudine is also beneficial in decompensated cirrhotics with HBV replication. Hepatitic flares may occur after stopping lamivudine therapy in nonresponders and also in responders. Therefore, prolonged therapy is usually required. However, tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate (YMDD) mutations conferring resistance to lamivudine start to emerge after 6-9 months of therapy, and hepatitis flare, even decompensation, may develop after viral breakthrough. Thus the benefits of long-term lamivudine therapy must be balanced against the concern about YMDD mutations and the durability of treatment response. Adefovir dipivoxil, entecavir, emtricitabine, clevudine and other nucleoside/ nucleotide analogues have shown encouraging results and some agents appear effective in patients with YMDD mutants. Further development of new drugs and new strategies may help to improve treatment in the new century.

journal_name

J Viral Hepat

authors

Liaw YF

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2893.2002.00388.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-11-01 00:00:00

pages

393-9

issue

6

eissn

1352-0504

issn

1365-2893

pii

388

journal_volume

9

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