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Acute hepatitis C treatment
Paulo Roberto Lerias de Almeida
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there are only limited data on the incidence of these symptoms&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> European studies<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> of AHC at tertiary referral centers report high frequencies of symptoms including jaundice&#40;71&#37;&#41;&#44; influenza-like illness&#40;64&#37;&#41;&#44; dark urine and clay colored stools&#40;36&#37;&#41;&#44; nausea or vomiting&#40;35&#37;&#41;&#44; and pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen&#40;26&#37;&#41;&#46; However&#44; these studies could be affected by referral bias&#44; since they were designed to identify HCV infection from a cohort of symptomatic patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Nevertheless&#44; recent papers from France<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> and Bulgaria<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> revealed the presence of jaundice in 40&#37; and 70&#37; of large series of 126 and 178 AHC infections&#44; respectively&#46; Other series from Japan&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> Egypt<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> and the USA<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> that have prospecti-vely followed injection drug users or people with needle-stick injury have reported a lower incidence of symptoms&#44; including jaundice &#40;0-10&#37;&#41;&#44; and could be more indicative of the overall scenario&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Diagnosis</span><p id="p0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is no definitive test to diagnose AHC&#46; An identifiable exposure to HCV&#44; recent seroconver-sion&#44; marked increases in aminotransferases and exclusion of other causes of acute liver diseases are usually used as circumstantial evidence of AHC&#46; The only method to conclusively diagnose AHC infection is to document seroconversion in a previously seronegative individual&#46; This is most frequently documented in the setting of needle-stick exposure&#44; when the exposed individual is followed prospective-ly&#44; or during surveillance of high-risk individuals&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a></p><p id="p0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After exposure&#44; there is a window of 1-3 weeks before serum HCV-RNA can be detected in serum and it is the first evidence of HCV infection&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> In older series&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> this window could be up to eight weeks&#44; probably related to less sensitive methods for detection of HCV RNA&#46;</p><p id="p0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Serum aminotransferases become elevated approximately 4-12 weeks after exposure &#40;range 1 to 26&#41;&#44; with variable levels that can include significantly elevated ALT levels &#40;&#62; 10-20 x ULN&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p><p id="p0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Anti-HCV ELISA tests become positive 4-10 weeks after exposure to HCV&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> Detection of anti-HCV is an unreliable way to identify AHC infection&#44; since the absence of antibodies does not preclude infection in the acute setting&#58; the appearance of antibodies against HCV could be delayed in as many as 30-50&#37; of patients at the onset of symptoms&#44; particularly in immunocompromissed hosts&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Spontaneous Resolution X Development of Chronicity</span><p id="p0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Early studies found that spontaneous virological clearance occurred in about 15-25&#37; of persons who developed transfusion associated AHC and that HCV infection persisted in 75-85&#37;&#59; later&#44; a far higher rate of spontaneous resolution was noted among infected children&#44; young women and even some persons with community-acquired hepatitis C&#44; the figures ranging between 42 and 45&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> Even higher rates of spontaneous HCV RNA clearance have been described&#44; 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<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> with standard interferon &#40;IFN&#41; recommended immediate therapy for AHC because of excellent treatment responses&#58; SVR 98&#37;&#59; the average time from first signs and symptoms until the start of therapy were 35 days&#46; Waiting some weeks did not reduce the SVR rates as shown by Italian study of Santantonio et al&#58; 28 patients with AHC were followed&#44; 11&#40;39&#37;&#41; had spontaneous clearance and 15 of 16 &#40;98&#37;&#41; patients who failed to spontaneously clear HCV RNA after12 weeks responded to treatment&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a></p><p id="p0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This strategy was also examined in 129 patients<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> with AHC without spontaneously clearance by week 8&#44; 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The remarkable study of Jaeckel&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> using an induction regimen of IFN &#40;5 MU&#47;day for 4 weeks&#44; followed by 5 MU three times weekly for another 20 weeks&#41; attained SVR in 43&#47;44 &#40;98&#37;&#41; patients&#46; Shorter treatment durations and high-dose IFN was evaluated by others studies&#46; In two of them&#44; SVR was reported in 21&#47;28&#40;75&#37;&#41; patients receiving 5 MU&#47;day for 8 weeks<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a> and in 20&#47; 24&#40;83&#37;&#41; patients treated with 10 MU&#47;day until normalization of ALT levels&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">30</span></a> In a separate study&#44; Nomura et al suggest that a shorter course of daily human lymphoblastoid IFN for 4 weeks could be highly efficacious&#44; with 87&#37; of SVR<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0015">Figure 3</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In AHC patients treated with pegylated interfe-ron &#40;PEG-IFN&#41;&#44; different strategies have been explored to optimize the SVR &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0020">Figure 4</a>&#41;&#46; The earlier studies with PEG-IFN also used 24 weeks of treatment&#58; in a large multicenter German study using PEG-IFN alfa-2b conducted by Wiegand et al&#44; 89 patients were treated after a median time from symptoms to therapy of 27 days with the standard dosage of 1&#46;5 &#956;g&#47;kg&#47;wk and demonstrated a SVR of 71&#37;&#59;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> a smaller Swiss study reveal a scarcely SVR of 57&#37; in a group of 14 patients that started treatment between 1 and 50 weeks after the diagnosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a> Both studies demonstrated poor adherence with high rates of dropout among intravenous drug users&#46; In contrast&#44; another 24 weeks treatment with PEG-IFN alfa-2b &#40;1&#46;5 &#956;g&#47;kg&#47; wk&#41; by Santantonio et al observe a SVR in 15&#47; 16&#40;94&#37;&#41; patients that initiate treatment 12 weeks after the diagnosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a></p><p id="p0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding treatment duration&#44; more recent trials have evaluated the efficacy of a short&#44; 12-week course of PEG-IFN&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">32</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0165"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">33</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0170"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">34</span></a> Two Italian studies&#40;32&#44;33&#41; use PEG-IFN alfa-2b &#40;1&#46;0-1&#46;6 &#956;g&#47;kg&#47; wk&#41; within a median time of 13&#46;5-31 days after diagnosis&#46; SVR was attained in 72-74&#37; of patients&#44; and higher rates of SVR &#40;83-92&#37;&#41; were attained by patients receiving higher dosages &#40;&#62; 1&#46;33 and &#62; 1&#46;2 &#956;g&#47;kg&#47;wk&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the only randomized controlled trial<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0170"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">34</span></a> conducted to date&#44; one study compared different durations of therapy in 102 patients with AHC who still had detectable HCV RNA after 8-12 weeks of observation&#59; the patients were randomly assigned to receive PEG-IFN alfa-2b &#40;1&#46;5&#956;g&#47;kg&#47;wk&#41; for 8&#44;12 or 24 weeks&#46; Overall SVR rates were 68&#37;&#44; 82&#37; and 91&#37;&#44; respectively&#46; Treatment for 8 or 12 weeks was effective in genotypes 2&#44; 3&#44; and 4&#44; whereas genotype 1 required 24 weeks of therapy&#46; Multivariate analysis showed that the presence of symptoms&#44; genotype non-1&#44; and rapid virologic response at week 4 were associated with improved viral clearance&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Combination with ribavirin &#40;RBV&#41;</span><p id="p0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The combination of interferons with RBV has not been tested extensively&#46; The few studies that used RBV associated with IFN<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0175"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">35</span></a> or PEG-IFN<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> found it to be well tolerated&#44; but responses rates were nor significantly higher than with monotherapy&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus &#40;HIV&#41; co-infected patients</span><p id="p0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">HIV-infected patients exposed to HCV are less likely to clear the acute infection&#46; Just only 4&#37; and 5&#37; of spontaneous resolution were observed in two more recent series of 25 and 55 co-infected pa-tients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0180"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">36</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">37</span></a> There have been few small single center trials of AHC in HIV patients receiving IFN or PEG-IFN&#44; with or without RBV&#59; SVR rates were variable and in general lower than that seen in the HCV mono-infected patients&#58; 0&#37; -71&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0180"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">36</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">38</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0195"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">39</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0200"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">40</span></a> A more re-cent Australian trial with 22 patients treated with PEG-IFN alfa-2a and RBV for 24 weeks showed a SVR of 80&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">41</span></a></p></span></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Conclusions</span><p id="p0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The identification of acute HCV infection represents a unique window of opportunity for achieving high rates of viral clearance&#46; Treatment of AHC with different interferons offers the opportunity of SVR in excess of 90&#37;&#46; A waiting period for observation of 12 weeks is recommended for patients with symptomatic hepatitis to allow for spontaneous viral clearance that can occur at high rates in this subgroup&#46; Asymptomatic and HIV patients may be treated immediately as they are less likely to undergo spontaneous clearance&#46; Treatment durations could vary from 12 to 24 weeks&#44; but recent data on 12 weeks of treatment are encouraging&#44; especially in those who achieve RVR&#46; The role of RBV has yet to be established&#46;</p></span></span>"
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