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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Free HCV Peer-Reviewed PDF Bonanza!!!


Free HCV Peer-Reviewed PDF Bonanza!!!
Posted on May 25, 2015

From now until the end of the month only! Free HCV Peer-Reviewed PDF Bonanza!!!

Free HCV Peer-Reviewed PDF Bonanza!!! Gone by June 1!

To satisfy your educational needs, Elsevier Multimedia Publishing has made available approximately 40 new, peer-reviewed, full text articles for free! Please click here for a list of these articles, which can readily be accessed in our American Journal of Medicine Hepatitis C Resource Center (hepcresource.amjmed.com). ****Clinical trial highlights provided below.

Note that ALL currently available, free, full text HCV peer-reviewed articles will be removed from the Resource Center by the end of this month! 

Highlights

Hepatitis C Clinical Trials
Hepatitis C: only a step away from elimination?[No authors listed]
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1045. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60584-0. No abstract available.

Trends in mortality after diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection: an international comparison and implications for monitoring the population impact of treatment.
Aspinall EJ, Hutchinson SJ, Janjua NZ, Grebely J, Yu A, Alavi M, Amin J, Goldberg DJ, Innes H, Law M, Walter SR, Krajden M, Dore GJ.
J Hepatol. 2015 Feb;62(2):269-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.09.001. Epub 2014 Sep 6.

Early virological assessment during telaprevir- or boceprevir-based triple therapy in hepatitis Ccirrhotic patients who failed a previous interferon based regimen – The ANRS CO20-CUPIC study.
Bailly F, Virlogeux V, Dufour C, Pradat P, Hézode C, Larrey D, Alric L, Samuel D, Bourlière M, Métivier S, Zarski JP, Fontaine H, Loustaud-Ratti V, Serfaty L, Bronowicki JP, Carrat F, Zoulim F; CUPIC Study Group.
Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol. 2015 Jan 27. pii: S2210-7401(15)00002-9. doi: 10.1016/j.clinre.2014.12.007. [Epub ahead of print]

Ledipasvir-sofosbuvir with or without ribavirin to treat patients with HCV genotype 1 infection and cirrhosis non-responsive to previous protease-inhibitor therapy: a randomised, double-blind, phase 2 trial (SIRIUS).
Bourlière M, Bronowicki JP, de Ledinghen V, Hézode C, Zoulim F, Mathurin P, Tran A, Larrey DG, Ratziu V, Alric L, Hyland RH, Jiang D, Doehle B, Pang PS, Symonds WT, Subramanian GM, McHutchison JG, Marcellin P, Habersetzer F, Guyader D, Grangé JD, Loustaud-Ratti V, Serfaty L, Metivier S, Leroy V, Abergel A, Pol S.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Apr;15(4):397-404. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70050-2. Epub 2015 Mar 13.

Hepatitis C virus RNA levels at week-2 of telaprevir/boceprevir administration are predictive of virological outcome.
Cento V, Di Paolo D, Di Carlo D, Micheli V, Tontodonati M, De Leonardis F, Aragri M, Antonucci FP, Di Maio VC, Mancon A, Lenci I, Manunta A, Taliani G, Di Biagio A, Nicolini LA, Nosotti L, Sarrecchia C, Siciliano M, Landonio S, Pellicelli A, Gasbarrini A, Vecchiet J, Magni CF, Babudieri S, Mura MS, Andreoni M, Parruti G, Rizzardini G, Angelico M, Perno CF, Ceccherini-Silberstein F.
Dig Liver Dis. 2015 Feb;47(2):157-63. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2014.11.010. Epub 2014 Nov 24.

Risk of microangiopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with or without chronic hepatitis C: Results of a retrospective long-term controlled cohort study.
Coppo C, Bonfanti D, Bo S, Giordanino C, Gallo M, Cococcia S, Ciccone G, Smedile A, Ciancio A, Bugianesi E, Fagoonee S, Pellicano R, Rizzetto M, Saracco GM.
Dig Liver Dis. 2015 Feb 7. pii: S1590-8658(15)00187-5. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2015.01.157. [Epub ahead of print]

Hope for non-responders with hepatitis C virus and cirrhosis.
Dusheiko G, MacDonald D.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Apr;15(4):363-5. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70094-0. Epub 2015 Mar 13. No abstract available.

STARTVerso1: A randomized trial of faldaprevir plus pegylated interferon/ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype-1 infection.
Ferenci P, Asselah T, Foster GR, Zeuzem S, Sarrazin C, Moreno C, Ouzan D, Maevskaya M, Calinas F, Morano LE, Crespo J, Dufour JF, Bourlière M, Agarwal K, Forton D, Schuchmann M, Zehnter E, Nishiguchi S, Omata M, Kukolj G, Datsenko Y, Garcia M, Scherer J, Quinson AM, Stern JO; on behalf of the STARTVerso1 study group.
J Hepatol. 2015 Jan 2. pii: S0168-8278(14)00953-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.024. [Epub ahead of print]

Shorter treatments for hepatitis C: another step forward?
Foster GR.
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1054-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61600-7. Epub 2015 Jan 13. No abstract available.

A randomized trial of daclatasvir in combination with asunaprevir and beclabuvir in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 4 infection.
Hassanein T, Sims KD, Bennett M, Gitlin N, Lawitz E, Nguyen T, Webster L, Younossi Z, Schwartz H, Thuluvath PJ, Zhou H, Rege B, McPhee F, Zhou N, Wind-Rotolo M, Chung E, Griffies A, Grasela DM, Gardiner DF.
J Hepatol. 2015 Jan 2. pii: S0168-8278(14)00954-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.025. [Epub ahead of print].

Daclatasvir and asunaprevir plus peginterferon alfa and ribavirin in HCV genotype 1 or 4 non-responders.
Jensen D, Sherman KE, Hézode C, Pol S, Zeuzem S, Ledinghen V, Tran A, Elkhashab M, Younes ZH, Kugelmas M, Mauss S, Everson G, Luketic V, Vierling J, Serfaty L, Brunetto M, Heo J, Bernstein D, McPhee F, Hennicken D, Mendez P, Hughes E, Noviello S; on behalf of the HALLMARK-QUAD Study Team.
J Hepatol. 2015 Feb 19. pii: S0168-8278(15)00125-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.02.018. [Epub ahead of print]

Patients with chronic hepatitis C without advanced fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma: A retrospective clinical-pathological study.
K-Kutala B, Bedossa P, Guedj J, Asselah T, Martinot-Peignoux M, Duval X, Marcellin P.
Dig Liver Dis. 2015 Apr;47(4):296-302. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2014.12.010. Epub 2014 Dec 25.

Virological response after 6 week triple-drug regimens for hepatitis C: a proof-of-concept phase 2A cohort study.
Kohli A, Osinusi A, Sims Z, Nelson A, Meissner EG, Barrett LL, Bon D, Marti MM, Silk R, Kotb C, Gross C, Jolley TA, Sidharthan S, Petersen T, Townsend K, Egerson D, Kapoor R, Spurlin E, Sneller M, Proschan M, Herrmann E, Kwan R, Teferi G, Talwani R, Diaz G, Kleiner DE, Wood BJ, Chavez J, Abbott S, Symonds WT, Subramanian GM, Pang PS, McHutchison J, Polis MA, Fauci AS, Masur H, Kottilil S.
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1107-13. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61228-9. Epub 2015 Jan 13.

Efficacy and safety of 12 weeks versus 18 weeks of treatment with grazoprevir (MK-5172) and elbasvir (MK-8742) with or without ribavirin for hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection in previously untreated patients with cirrhosis and patients with previous null response with or without cirrhosis (C-WORTHY): a randomised, open-label phase 2 trial.
Lawitz E, Gane E, Pearlman B, Tam E, Ghesquiere W, Guyader D, Alric L, Bronowicki JP, Lester L, Sievert W, Ghalib R, Balart L, Sund F, Lagging M, Dutko F, Shaughnessy M, Hwang P, Howe AY, Wahl J, Robertson M, Barr E, Haber B.
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1075-86. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61795-5. Epub 2014 Nov 11. Erratum in: Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1074.

Exploratory trial of ombitasvir and ABT-450/r with or without ribavirin for HCV genotype 1, 2, and 3 infection.
Lawitz E, Sullivan G, Rodriguez-Torres M, Bennett M, Poordad F, Kapoor M, Badri P, Campbell A, Rodrigues L Jr, Hu Y, Pilot-Matias T, Vilchez RA.
J Infect. 2015 Feb;70(2):197-205. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2014.09.008. Epub 2014 Sep 22.

Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for treatment of hepatitis C virus in patients co-infected with HIV (PHOTON-2): a multicentre, open-label, non-randomised, phase 3 study.
Molina JM, Orkin C, Iser DM, Zamora FX, Nelson M, Stephan C, Massetto B, Gaggar A, Ni L, Svarovskaia E, Brainard D, Subramanian GM, McHutchison JG, Puoti M, Rockstroh JK; PHOTON-2 study team.
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1098-106. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62483-1. Epub 2015 Feb 4.

Efficacy and safety of simeprevir with PegIFN/ribavirin in naïve or experienced patients infected with chronic HCV genotype 4.
Moreno C, Hezode C, Marcellin P, Bourgeois S, Francque S, Samuel D, Zoulim F, Grange JD, Shukla U, Lenz O, Ouwerkerk-Mahadevan S, Fevery B, Peeters M, Beumont M, Jessner W.
J Hepatol. 2015 Jan 14. pii: S0168-8278(15)00002-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.12.031. [Epub ahead of print]

Simeprevir versus telaprevir with peginterferon and ribavirin in previous null or partial responders with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection (ATTAIN): a randomised, double-blind, non-inferiority phase 3 trial.
Reddy KR, Zeuzem S, Zoulim F, Weiland O, Horban A, Stanciu C, Villamil FG, Andreone P, George J, Dammers E, Fu M, Kurland D, Lenz O, Ouwerkerk-Mahadevan S, Verbinnen T, Scott J, Jessner W.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Jan;15(1):27-35. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71002-3. Epub 2014 Dec 5.

Efficacy and safety of 8 weeks versus 12 weeks of treatment with grazoprevir (MK-5172) and elbasvir (MK-8742) with or without ribavirin in patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 mono-infection and HIV/hepatitis C virus co-infection (C-WORTHY): a randomised, open-label phase 2 trial.
Sulkowski M, Hezode C, Gerstoft J, Vierling JM, Mallolas J, Pol S, Kugelmas M, Murillo A, Weis N, Nahass R, Shibolet O, Serfaty L, Bourliere M, DeJesus E, Zuckerman E, Dutko F, Shaughnessy M, Hwang P, Howe AY, Wahl J, Robertson M, Barr E, Haber B.
Lancet. 2015 Mar 21;385(9973):1087-97. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61793-1. Epub 2014 Nov 11.

Prospective, observational real-life study on eligibility for and outcomes of antiviral treatment with peginterferon α plus ribavirin in chronic hepatitis C.
Vukotic R, Gamal N, Andreone P.
Dig Liver Dis. 2015 Feb;47(2):151-6. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2014.11.002. Epub 2014 Nov 13.

Improvement of health-related quality of life and work productivity in chronic hepatitis C patients with early and advanced fibrosis treated with ledipasvir and sofosbuvir.
Younossi ZM, Stepanova M, Afdhal N, Kowdley KV, Zeuzem S, Henry L, Hunt SL, Marcellin P.
J Hepatol. 2015 Mar 17. pii: S0168-8278(15)00192-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.03.014. [Epub ahead of print]

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