HCV相关的混合型低血球蛋白血症患者的无干扰素治疗的病毒学和临床学反应：前瞻性试验研究的初步结果

Title:Virological and Clinical Response to Interferon-Free Regimens in Patients with HCV-Related Mixed Cryoglobulinemia: Preliminary Results of a Prospective Pilot Study

Volume: 18 Issue: 7

关键词: 抗病毒治疗，直接抗病毒（DAA），有效性，HCV， 无干扰素，混合低血球蛋白血症，安全性

摘要: Mixed Cryoglobulinemia (MC) is the most frequent extrahepatic manifestation of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. MC is an autoimmune /B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by circulating immune-complexes, named cryoglobulins. MC patients exhibit symptoms due to a systemic vasculitis of small/medium size vessels (mixed cryoglobulinemia syndrome, MCS) in a percentage going from 5 to 30%. The first-line therapeutic option in MCS patients is the etiologic treatment and, in the past fifteen years, antiviral therapy with Pegylated-Interferon (Peg-IFN) plus Ribavirin (RBV) represented the standard of care. Lately, the arrival of direct acting antivirals (DAAs) significantly modified the cure of HCV infection, consenting the use of IFN-free regimens. Here we report a review of the literature about the role of antiviral treatment, following its evolution, in treating HCVrelated MC. Furthermore, we report the results, after 8 weeks of treatment, of a preliminary pilot prospective study, counting 17 patients with HCV-related MC with or without MCS, treated with new generation DAAs in IFN-free regimens. After 8 weeks of DAA administration, all the subjects were HCV RNA negative. Moreover, in 6/17 (35%) patients cryoglobulins disappeared and, on the whole, in all patients a decrease of the cryocrit values was observed (p<0.05). Furthermore, three MCS-HCV patients (30%) resulted to be complete clinical responders and 5 subjects (50%) partial clinical responders. Therefore, IFN-free anti-HCV treatment appears to be safe and effective in MC patients from virological and clinical points of view, thus supporting the importance of HCV eradication in leading MC remission.

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Virological and Clinical Response to Interferon-Free Regimens in Patients with HCV-Related Mixed Cryoglobulinemia: Preliminary Results of a Prospective Pilot Study, Current Drug Targets 2017; 18 (7) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389450117666160208145432