Background: Infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV) affects approximately 6-14.5% of patients coinfected with HIV-1 and HBV, showing a more aggressive clinical course compared with an HIV-negative population. There is no universally approved treatment for chronic hepatitis D (CHD) in HIV-infected patients. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) containing tenofovir has been recently associated with HDV suppression. Our aim was to evaluate whether the outcome of CHD in HIV-infected patients can be favourably influenced by ART including reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Methods: The clinical course of four HBV/HDV/HIV-coinfected patients receiving ART were retrospectively examined.
Results: HDV RNA became undetectable in all patients after a variable period of ART along with the disappearance of hepatitis B surface antigen in two of them, and an increase in CD4(+) T-cell count. In all patients, virological changes were associated with improved liver function tests and clinical features.
Conclusions: We suggest that ART regimens including drugs active against HBV could have beneficial effects on the clinical course of CHD in patients with HIV-1 by favouring immunological reconstitution.
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