Ledipasvir and sofosbuvir for 8 or 12 weeks for chronic HCV without cirrhosis.

By Kris V. Kowdley, S. Gordon, K. Reddy, L. Rossaro, D. Bernstein, E. Lawitz, M. Shiffman, E. Schiff, R. Ghalib, M. Ryan and 15 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2014

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BACKGROUND High rates of sustained virologic response were observed among patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection who received 12 weeks of treatment with the nucleotide polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir combined with the NS5A inhibitor ledipasvir. This study examined 8 weeks of treatment with this regimen. METHODS In this phase 3, open-label study, we randomly assigned 647 previously untreated patients with HCV genotype 1 infection without cirrhosis to receive ledipasvir and sofosbuvir (ledipasvir-sofosbuvir) for 8 weeks, ledipasvir-sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for 8 weeks, or ledipasvir-sofosbuvir for 12 weeks. The primary end point was sustained virologic response at 12 weeks after the end of therapy. RESULTS The rate of sustained virologic response was 94% (95% confidence interval [CI], 90 to 97) with 8 weeks of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir, 93% (95% CI, 89 to 96) with 8 weeks of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir plus ribavirin, and 95% (95% CI, 92 to 98) with 12 weeks of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir. As compared with the rate of sustained virologic response in the group that received 8 weeks of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir, the rate in the 12-week group was 1 percentage point higher (97.5% CI, -4 to 6) and the rate in the group that received 8 weeks of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir with ribavirin was 1 percentage point lower (95% CI, -6 to 4); these results indicated noninferiority of the 8-week ledipasvir-sofosbuvir regimen, on the basis of a noninferiority margin of 12 percentage points. Adverse events were more common in the group that received ribavirin than in the other two groups. No patient who received 8 weeks of only ledipasvir-sofosbuvir discontinued treatment owing to adverse events. CONCLUSIONS Ledipasvir-sofosbuvir for 8 weeks was associated with a high rate of sustained virologic response among previously untreated patients with HCV genotype 1 infection without cirrhosis. No additional benefit was associated with the inclusion of ribavirin in the regimen or with extension of the duration of treatment to 12 weeks. (Funded by Gilead Sciences; ION-3 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01851330.).

Subfields: Hepatology, Infectious Diseases

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• EASL Recommendations on Treatment of Hepatitis C 2015. (2015, background): “8 Log) IU/ml at baseline could be treated for 8 weeks [36].”
• EASL Recommendations on Treatment of Hepatitis C 2018. (2018, result): “In ION-3 in treatment-naïve genotype 1a patients without cirrhosis, the SVR12 rates were 93% (159/171; 10 relapses) with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir for 8 weeks and 95% (163/172; 2 relapses) with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir for 12 weeks.(76) These results were confirmed by real-world studies from Europe and the”