Hepatitis C News

In a minimal monitoring – or “Minmon” – study, patients given a full regimen for hepatitis C virus and then remotely monitored achieved 95% sustained virologic response, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting Digital Experience.

Higher fibroscan liver stiffness after hepatitis C antiviral treatment was associated with the development of decompensated cirrhosis, according to study results.

In this exclusive video, Joss O’Loan, MBBS, from the Hepatitis C Kombi Clinic in Brisbane, Australia, discusses two studies presented at The Digital International Liver Congress on HCV elimination programs using Epclusa.

Direct-acting antivirals first received approval for use in adults with hepatitis C in 2013. They were approved for use in children several years later, in 2017.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had “a tremendously negative impact” on efforts to eliminate hepatitis C, according to Ricardo Franco, MD.

Direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C have not only led to a cure for the virus — they’ve also changed the paradigm in liver transplantation. This includes the transplantation of HCV-positive organs into HCV-negative recipients.

Treatment with direct-acting antivirals was associated with decreased mortality among a sample of more than 50,000 Medicare beneficiaries with hepatitis C virus, regardless of the presence of cirrhosis, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Using hepatitis C drugs sofosbuvir and daclatasvir in combination with standard care to treat patients with COVID-19 resulted in better 14-day recovery rates and a shorter hospital stay, according to data presented at AIDS 2020.

The HHS and the U.S. Public Health Service updated the solid organ transplant guidance to evaluate donors and monitor recipients for HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections, according to a release.

Universal hepatitis C virus screening in EDs with the ability to opt out showed that nearly half of infections were identified in people born after 1965, according to findings published in MMWR.