STARTVerso1: A randomized trial of faldaprevir plus pegylated interferon/ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype-1 infection.


Autoria(s): Ferenci, Peter; Asselah, Tarik; Foster, Graham R; Zeuzem, Stefan; Sarrazin, Christoph; Moreno, Christophe; Ouzan, Denis; Maevskaya, Marina; Calinas, Filipe; Morano, Luis E; Crespo, Javier; Dufour, Jean-François; Bourlière, Marc; Agarwal, Kosh; Forton, Daniel; Schuchmann, Marcus; Zehnter, Elmar; Nishiguchi, Shuhei; Omata, Masao; Kukolj, George; Datsenko, Yakov; Garcia, Miguel; Scherer, Joseph; Quinson, Anne-Marie; Stern, Jerry O
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02/01/2015

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BACKGROUND & AIMS The efficacy and tolerability of faldaprevir, a potent hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3/4A protease inhibitor, plus peginterferon and ribavirin was assessed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study of treatment-naïve patients with HCV genotype-1 infection. METHODS Patients were randomly assigned (1:2:2) to peginterferon/ribavirin plus: placebo (arm 1, n=132) for 24 weeks; faldaprevir (120 mg, once daily) for 12 or 24 weeks (arm 2, n=259); or faldaprevir (240 mg, once daily) for 12 weeks (arm 3, n=261). In arms 2 and 3, patients with early treatment success (HCV RNA <25 IU/mL at week 4 and undetectable at week 8) stopped all treatment at week 24. Other patients received peginterferon/ribavirin until week 48 unless they met futility criteria. The primary endpoint was sustained virologic response 12 weeks post-treatment (SVR12). RESULTS SVR12 was achieved by 52%, 79%, and 80% of patients in arms 1, 2, and 3, respectively (estimated difference for arms 2 and 3 versus arm 1: 27%, 95% confidence interval 17%-36%; and 29%, 95% confidence interval, 19%-38%, respectively; P<.0001 for both). Early treatment success was achieved by 87% (arm 2) and 89% (arm 3) of patients, of whom 86% and 89% achieved SVR12. Adverse event rates were similar among groups; few adverse events led to discontinuation of all regimen components. CONCLUSIONS Faldaprevir plus peginterferon/ribavirin significantly increased SVR12, compared with peginterferon/ribavirin, in treatment-naïve patients with HCV genotype-1 infection. There do not seem to be any differences in responses of patients given once-daily 120 or 240 mg faldaprevir.

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Ferenci, Peter; Asselah, Tarik; Foster, Graham R; Zeuzem, Stefan; Sarrazin, Christoph; Moreno, Christophe; Ouzan, Denis; Maevskaya, Marina; Calinas, Filipe; Morano, Luis E; Crespo, Javier; Dufour, Jean-François; Bourlière, Marc; Agarwal, Kosh; Forton, Daniel; Schuchmann, Marcus; Zehnter, Elmar; Nishiguchi, Shuhei; Omata, Masao; Kukolj, George; ... (2015). STARTVerso1: A randomized trial of faldaprevir plus pegylated interferon/ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype-1 infection. Journal of hepatology, 62(6), pp. 1246-1255. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.024>

doi:10.7892/boris.67159

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Ferenci, Peter; Asselah, Tarik; Foster, Graham R; Zeuzem, Stefan; Sarrazin, Christoph; Moreno, Christophe; Ouzan, Denis; Maevskaya, Marina; Calinas, Filipe; Morano, Luis E; Crespo, Javier; Dufour, Jean-François; Bourlière, Marc; Agarwal, Kosh; Forton, Daniel; Schuchmann, Marcus; Zehnter, Elmar; Nishiguchi, Shuhei; Omata, Masao; Kukolj, George; ... (2015). STARTVerso1: A randomized trial of faldaprevir plus pegylated interferon/ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype-1 infection. Journal of hepatology, 62(6), pp. 1246-1255. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.024>

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