Publications by authors named "A Glibert"
Aim: To assess, in a routine practice setting, the sustained virologic response (SVR) to telaprevir (TPV) or boceprevir (BOC) in hepatitis C virus (HCV) null-responders or relapsers with severe liver fibrosis.
Methods: One hundred twenty-five patients were treated prospectively for 48 wk with TPV or BOC + pegylated-interferon (peg-INF) α2a + ribavirin (PR) according to standard treatment schedules without randomization. These patients were treated in routine practice settings in 10 public or private health care centers, and the data were prospectively collected.
High dose daily interferon-alpha induction and secondary adjunction of ribavirin in treatment-naive patients with chronic hepatitis C. A multicentric, randomised, controlled trial.
Gastroenterol Clin Biol
April 2006
Objectives: To evaluate in naive patients with chronic hepatitis C 1- the efficacy and safety of one month interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) induction regimen; 2- the potential virological benefit of a secondary adjunction of ribavirin among HCV RNA negative patients after 20 weeks of IFN therapy, with or without an initial 4-week IFN induction.
Material And Methods: 151 naive HCV-RNA positive patients presenting with biopsy- proven chronic hepatitis C and elevated ALT were randomised in a 2: 1 ratio in two arms: IFN-alpha 3 MU thrice a week (tiw) for 24 weeks (non-induced patients); IFN-alpha 6 MU daily for two weeks, then 3 MU daily for two weeks then 3 MU tiw for 20 weeks (induced patients). At week 24, HCV-RNA negative patients were randomised to receive in addition or not ribavirin 1-1.
Objective: Recent guidelines on the management of patients chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection recommend the same anti-HCV therapy for active intravenous drug users and other patients, however some physicians are reluctant to treat active drug users. The aim of this study was to compare hepatitis C management practices and clinical outcome after treatment between active intravenous drug users and other patients.
Methods: Four hundred and thirty-five naive HCV seropositive patients were recruited from 1990 to 2000 and followed up for a mean period of 2.