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Item Impact of long-term tenofovir disoproxil fumarate on incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic hepatitis B(Wiley, 2015-10-15) Kim, W. Ray; Loomba, Rohit; Berg, Thomas; Schall, Raul E. Aguilar; Yee, Leland J.; Dinh, Phillip V.; Flaherty, John F.; Martins, Eduardo B.; Therneau, Terry M.; Jacobson, Ira; Fung, Scott; Buti, Maria; Marcellin, Patrick; Gürel, Selim; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı/Gastroenteroloji Bilim Dalı.; 7003706434BACKGROUND: Efficacy trials have shown that antiviral therapy improves the outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. However, prospective data regarding the effect of antiviral therapy on the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), especially among patients without cirrhosis, are limited. The authors examined the impact of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) on the incidence of HCC using a validated prediction model. METHODS: The incidence of HCC in patients treated with TDF was obtained in the pivotal TDF registration studies after 384 weeks of follow-up. The predicted risk of HCC in individual patients was calculated using the Risk Estimation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Chronic Hepatitis B (REACH-B) model, which estimates HCC incidence for up to 10 years based on age, sex, alanine aminotransferase level, hepatitis B e antigen status, and HBV-DNA. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were calculated comparing the observed and predicted numbers of HCC cases in the study cohort. RESULTS: Among 634 patients with evaluable baseline biopsies, 152 had cirrhosis (Ishak fibrosis score of 5 or 6) and 482 did not. During the 384 weeks of study, 14 cases of HCC were reported, with 4 occurring within the first year. The incidence of HCC was 0.37% per year in the study as a whole (0.28% among patients without cirrhosis and 0.65% among patients with cirrhosis). Among patients without cirrhosis, the observed incidence of HCC was significantly lower than predicted (SIR, 0.40; 95% confidence interval, 0.199-0.795). The last HCC case in a patient with cirrhosis occurred around week 192 with an SIR of 0.51 (95% confidence interval, 0.231-1.144) reported at week 384. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the REACH-B risk calculator, long-term therapy with TDF was associated with a reduced incidence of HCC among patients without cirrhosis who met treatment criteria.Item Long-term clinical outcomes in cirrhotic chronic hepatitis B patients treated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for up to 5 years(Springer, 2015-04) Buti, Maria; Fung, Scott; Gane, Edward; Afdhal, Nezam H.; Flisiak, Robert; Flaherty, John F.; Martins, Eduardo B.; Yee, Leland J.; Dinh, Phillip; Bornstein, Jeffrey D.; Subramanian, G. Mani; Janssen, Harry L. A.; George, Jacob; Marcellin, Patrick; Gürel, Selim; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Gastroenteroloji Anabilim Dalı.; 7003706434Phase 3 clinical studies have shown that long-term treatment with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) can suppress hepatitis B viral load and promote significant fibrosis regression and cirrhosis reversal in a majority of treated chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. This retrospective analysis investigated the impact of baseline cirrhosis status on virologic, serologic, and histologic outcomes in patients treated with TDF. Patients enrolled in studies GS-US-174-0102 and GS-US-174-0103 who had baseline liver biopsy-diagnosed cirrhosis and entered the open-label phase of the studies were included in the virologic and serologic analyses. Patients (both HBeAg positive and negative) with paired liver biopsies at baseline and 5 years (N = 348) were included in a histologic analysis. After 5 years on study, comparing patients with and without baseline cirrhosis, respectively: 99.2 and 98.0 % achieved virologic response (hepatitis B viral load < 69 IU/ml) (p = 0.686); 79.7 and 81.9 % had normal serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (p = 0.586); 4.0 and 1.2 % developed hepatocellular carcinoma (p = 0.044). In HBeAg-positive patients with and without baseline cirrhosis, HBsAg loss occurred in 14.4 and 8.3 % of patients, respectively (p = 0.188). One HBeAg-negative patient had HBsAg loss. This represents the largest analyses to date of CHB patients with sequential liver biopsies demonstrating that treatment with TDF for up to 5 years is associated with favorable virologic, serologic, and histologic outcomes, regardless of baseline cirrhosis status. Notably, histologic improvement was observed in the majority of cirrhotic and noncirrhotic patients.Item Reduced bone mineral density derived from dual x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) assessments in patients with chronic hepatitis b (CHB)(Elsevier, 2011-03) Fung, Scott; Fabri, Milotka; Wong, Florence; Heathcoate, J.; Kwan, Wing C. Peter; Caruntu, Florin Alexandru; Husa, Petr; Mazur, Wlodzimierz; Pelemis, Mijomir; Gane, E.; Coombs, Derek; Hirsch, K. R.; Gürel, Selim; Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı/Gastroenteroloji Bilim Dalı.