279334

Impact of long-term eradication of chronic Hepatitis C infection using the direct-acting antiviral treatment on liver fibrosis parameters in Egyptian patients

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment aims to halt the progression of fibrosis and reducing its complications. HCV-treatment has been enhanced by the development of all-oral DAAs with good efficacy and a reasonable side effect. Aims: The goal of this study is to see how long-term eradication of HCV affect liver fibrosis following DAAs therapy. Materials and methods: 500 HCV patients receiving sofosbuvir-based therapy with daclatasvir or ledipasvir (with or without ribavirin). In addition to clinical, laboratory, and radiological examination, FIB-4, APRI, Fibroscan examination, Child and MELD scores were calculated at baseline and one year after end of therapy (EOT). Results: Out of 500 participants included in the study, 493 participants complete the study period. 454 (92.1%) patients had sustained virologic response (SVR) during the period of study and 39 patients were non-responders. In patients with SVR, FIB-4 index, APRI score and fibroScan measures showed significant reduction one-year post-EOT versus baseline (p < 0.001 for all). Although, Child score in patients had SVR did not demonstrate a significant improvement one year after EOT versus baseline (p = 0.479), it showed a significant improvement versus non responder (p < 0.001). In addition, MELD score revealed a significant reduction in patients who achieved SVR one-year post-EOT versus baseline (p = 0.028). Furthermore, one-year following EOT, there was a significant improvement in MELD score in patients with SVR versus non-responder (p < 0.001).  Conclusion: DAAs therapy in HCV-related liver disease had a good impact on liver fibrosis regression and the improvement of its outcome.

DOI

10.21608/mjvh.2022.279334

Keywords

Child score, DAAs therapy, HCV, Liver fibrosis parameters, MELD

Authors

First Name

Ali

Last Name

Nada

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hepatology Gastroenterology Department, National liver institute, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Lmyaa

Last Name

Ata

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hepatology Gastroenterology Department, National liver institute, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

lamiaa@liver.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amany

Last Name

Amer

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

amany.abbas630@med.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Elabd

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

naglaa.alabd.12@med.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

7.1

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

38624

Issue Date

2022-12-01

Receive Date

2022-11-16

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

21

Page End

32

Print ISSN

2314-8748

Online ISSN

2314-8756

Link

https://mjvh.journals.ekb.eg/article_279334.html

Detail API

https://mjvh.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=279334

Order

5

Type

Original article

Type Code

477

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Publication Link

https://mjvh.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Impact of long-term eradication of chronic Hepatitis C infection using the direct-acting antiviral treatment on liver fibrosis parameters in Egyptian patients

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023