Atsuhiro Morita, Nobuharu Tamaki, Haruhiko Kobashi, Nami Mori, Keiji Tsuji, Shintaro Takaki, Chitomi Hasebe, Takehiro Akahane, Hironori Ochi, Toshie Mashiba, Naohito Urawa, Hideki Fujii, Akeri Mitsuda, Masahiko Kondo, Chikara Ogawa, Yasushi Uchida, Ryoichi Narita, Hiroyuki Marusawa, Yoshihito Kubotsu, Tomomichi Matsushita, Masaya Shigeno, Hideo Yoshida, Katsuaki Tanaka, Eisuke Okamoto, Toyotaka Kasai, Toru Ishii, Kazuhiko Okada, Masayuki Kurosaki, Namiki Izumi
BACKGROUND AND AIM: In patients with chronic hepatitis C, 8 weeks of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) treatment for chronic hepatitis (non-cirrhosis) and 12 weeks for cirrhosis have been approved in Japan. However, whether 8 weeks of treatment for cirrhosis may reduce treatment efficacy has not been adequately investigated. METHODS: This prospective, nationwide, multicenter cohort study enrolled 1275 patients with chronic hepatitis C who received GLE/PIB therapy...
April 2024: JGH Open: An Open Access Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology