By Andrew D. Bowser
The findings add new perspective to the ongoing discussion among researchers and clinicians as to whether adding ribavirin might prevent a relapse in patients with HCV genotype 3, particularly if they were previously treated.
Results of the current study represent “real world” experience with patients with HCV genotype 3 treated at 9 sites in Germany, according to Stefan Christensen, MD, Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Interdisciplinary Medicine, Muenster, Germany.
“We could confirm the high SVR12 rates [sustained virologic response at 12 weeks] from the clinical phase 3 studies with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, [but] in our cohort, it seems like the addition of ribavirin in cirrhotic patients did not have further benefit for those patients,” he said.
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Results of the current study represent “real world” experience with patients with HCV genotype 3 treated at 9 sites in Germany, according to Stefan Christensen, MD, Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Interdisciplinary Medicine, Muenster, Germany.
“We could confirm the high SVR12 rates [sustained virologic response at 12 weeks] from the clinical phase 3 studies with sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, [but] in our cohort, it seems like the addition of ribavirin in cirrhotic patients did not have further benefit for those patients,” he said.
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