Active clinical trials for "Hepatitis C"

The availability of novel therapies with DAAs might prompt clinicians caring for HSCT recipients with HCV infection to prescribe the treatment more frequently and possibly earlier after HSCT. Since numerous possible therapeutic combinations exist, the choice of the most appropriate one is not straightforward. It depends not only on its efficacy, toxicity and rate of pharmacological interactions, but also on availability (both through healthcare system and in expanded access programs), and cost. This observational prospective study will focus on treatment strategies in HSCT recipients with HCV infection. The main focus will be the therapeutic approach, the combination of drugs chosen, the length of treatment and the outcome. The main reasons for treating or not treating HSCT recipients with HCV infection will be also explored. Compared to previous cohorts, this study might provide additional data in the area of non-invasive assessment of fibrosis, HCV-RNA levels and genotyping. In order to get as much data as possible on HCV treatment, patients with chronic HCV infection transplanted during the last 10 years will be included. Finally the prevalence of HCV-RNA positive patients among those transplanted in the year 2016 will be reported.

This use-results post-marketing surveillance (PMS) study for Sovaldi® tablets (sofosbuvir, SOF) administered in combination with Rebetol® capsules (ribavirin, REB) will evaluate the safety and efficacy of SOF administered in combination with ribavirin under real world use in Japan. Among adult patients with chronic genotype 2 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and treated with SOF+ribavirin in routine clinical use, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the incidence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) under real world settings.

The purpose of this study is to determine if rosiglitazone, a medicine used to treat diabetes, improves response to anti-viral treatment.

Chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) is a disease that affects worldwide about 170 million people. The previous standard of care therapy of chronic HCV patients consists of pegylated-IFN-α combined with ribavirin, and results in sustained clearance of HCV-RNA in only about 50% of the HCV genotype 1 infected patients. Telaprevir, a NS3A-4A inhibitor, has previously proven to offer therapeutic options to previous non-responders to the standard of care. Although, not all chronic HCV patients benefit from telaprevir and it is still not known why certain patients are also non-responsive to this triple therapy. In this study we try to understand why certain patients are also non-responsive to telaprevir, how triple therapy modulates the responsiveness to IFN-α and what the immunological consequences are of treatment with telaprevir, either directly or as a result of telaprevir-induced reduction of HCV-RNA levels.

Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to evaluate phosphoprotein profiling to determine differences in the intracellular actions of interferon or interferon stimulated genes among people with different treatment outcomes to interferon based therapy for hepatitis C (HCV). Participants: Patients with genotype 1 HCV who have had interferon based therapy at the University of North Carolina (UNC). Procedures: Thirty patients with varied responses to treatment will be given a single subcutaneous injection of interferon alpha 2b. Prior to the injection and at 30 minutes, 1,2,4,6,12 and 20 hours after injection, blood will be drawn for analysis of phosphoprotein profiling and changes in serum cytokines.

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease (CLD) worldwide. Current mainstay of treatment is combination therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavarin. Thrombocytopenia as a treatment related adverse event or a complication of chronic liver disease often necessitates dose reduction and discontinuation in these patients. Revolade®/Promacta® (eltrombopag) is an oral second generation thrombopoietic growth factor in development for the treatment thrombocytopenia associated with various conditions, including secondary thrombocytopenia related to CLD and hepatitis C. In 2009 a phase III trial for CLD patients undergoing an elective invasive procedure (ELEVATE) was terminated early due to an imbalance of thromboembolic events (TEE) between the placebo and the eltrombopag arm. Currently, two global interventional Phase III trials (ENABLE 1 and ENABLE 2) are being conducted in approximately 1500 patients to evaluate the efficacy of eltrombopag in enabling HCV patients to achieve sustained viral response. Due to the similarities between the patient groups in ELEVATE and ENABLE, there is a concern that invasive procedures may influence the risk of TEE in the ENABLE population. This observational, non-interventional, retrospective, multicentre, nested case-control study will collect data from chart abstraction and medical record review to augment data from the ENABLE case report forms particularly with regards to invasive procedures. The study population includes cases and controls drawn from the ~1500 participants of the ENABLE trials. All eligible cases of TEE will be included in the study as cases. All other patients who participated in the ENABLE trials and did not experience a TEE, will be eligible to be selected as controls. Case report forms will be developed to enable standardized data capture. The Sponsor has contracted with the Clinical Research Organization, Outcome Sciences Inc to manage the study. ENABLE investigators will work with Outcome staff to obtain relevant information from the treating physician (e.g. surgeon) and the facility where the invasive procedure was performed (pre-operative tests, peri-operative course, diagnostic testing for TEE). Single point abstraction will be performed to obtain data from the medical record and from any additional data resources obtained by the investigator (e.g., operative note, anesthesia record). Analyses will be conducted using logistic regression models to estimate the risks. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate if there is an increased risk for TEE among patients who had an invasive procedure while exposed to eltrombopag (during the ENABLE trials).

The chief purpose of this research is to understand how antiretroviral therapy (ART) affects progression of liver disease in persons co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). The investigators study liver disease progression in a cohort of dually infected persons according to the success of ART.

The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising worldwide.One important etiology is a chronic inflammation due to hepatitis c (hcv) infection. Over the steps of a chronic inflammation over the stadium of cirrhosis of the liver it is possible that neoplastic nodules appear in the liver which can rise up to a HCC. In the pathogenesis of HCC oxidative stress seems to play an important role and as selenium is a key micronutrient in this process its levels could differ between the different stages of disease in hcv- infected patients. The aim of this trial is to examine these differences.

The primary objective of this study is to estimate the distributions of HCV viral/human genotypes (including IL28B and inosine triphosphatase, ITPA), and HCV RNA level among ITPA gene among 1000 Han ethnic Chinese patients with HCV who are antiviral treatment naive at the time the study is conducted.

Liver-related death is the leading cause of mortality in HIV-infected individuals with CD4+ cell counts over 200, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the greatest risk for liver-related mortality in HIV-positive patients. Compared to HCV monoinfected individuals, patients with HIV and HCV coinfection experience accelerated progression of liver fibrosis, which can lead to higher incidence of cirrhosis, end stage liver disease (ESLD), and death. Changes in CD8+ T-cell activation, inflammatory cytokines, and serum markers of tissue injury may offer an immunologic platform to determine factors associated with progressive liver fibrosis in coinfected patients. In this cross-sectional study we will evaluate whether HIV and HCV coinfection patients with well-controlled HIV infection who have an undetectable viral load exhibit abnormal levels of inflammation and immune activation, potentially contributing to advanced liver fibrosis. Comparative groups include coinfected patients successfully treated for hepatitis C, or who have absence of hepatitis C viremia through spontaneous clearance, hepatitis C monoinfected patients, and HIV-positive patients with well-controlled HIV infection without hepatitis C. Liver fibrosis will be measured by non-invasive methods. The primary objectives of this study are: To determine if there are differences in markers of inflammation and immune activation in subsets of patients with HIV, hepatitis C, and HIV and hepatitis C coinfection. To assess the stage of liver fibrosis using non-invasive methods in subsets of patients with hepatitis C and HIV and hepatitis C coinfection and compare the degree of liver fibrosis with levels of inflammation and immune activation.