Pegylated interferon-based sequential therapy for treatment of HBeAg reactive pediatric chronic hepatitis B-First study in children

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology : Official Journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology
Bikrant Bihari LalSeema Alam

Abstract

Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sequential therapy using pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) and nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) for treatment of children in immunoactive (IA) and immunotolerant (IT) phases of chronic hepatitis B. It was a prospective observational study where those willing for sequential therapy were allocated to group 1 (sequential therapy) and others to group 2 (standard therapy). Sequential therapy included 8 weeks of NA followed by 44 weeks of combination of NA and Peg-IFN. In group 2, IA children received NA monotherapy, and IT children received no therapy. HBe seroconversion, HBs seroconversion, and loss of HBV DNA were the major outcome measures. A total of 61 children (36 IA and 25 IT) were included in the analysis. Among the IA children, 17 received sequential therapy and 19 received standard therapy; whereas, among the IT children, 12 received sequential therapy and 13 did not receive any therapy. In IA phase, sequential therapy led to higher HBe seroconversion (64.7% vs. 21.05%, p = 0.017) and higher virological clearance (94.12% vs. 52.63%, p = 0.008). In IT children, there was no benefit of treatment with sequential therapy over observation alone. Baseline ALT > 100 IU/L predicted respon...Continue Reading

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