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A once-daily oral dose of sofosbuvir and velpatasvir for 12 weeks leads to sustained virological response (SVR) in a majority of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to an Asian study. However, the efficacy of this regimen may be reduced in patients with HCV genotype 3b with cirrhosis.
Cabozantinib, an oral inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases, significantly improves overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) whose disease progressed following sorafenib or other systemic therapies.
Pembrolizumab demonstrated promising results in several outcomes among patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) whose disease progressed on or who were unable to tolerate treatment with sorafenib, findings from the KEYNOTE-224* trial show.
Eradication of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is becoming achievable, although much work still has to be done, says an expert.
Virtual hepatic venous pressure gradient (vHVPG), a novel noninvasive approach to assess portal hypertension, is shown to correlate well with the gold-standard invasive method in a recent Chinese study.
An index of three liver-specific microRNAs (the MiR-B Index) could serve as a biomarker of spontaneous or treatment-induced transition from active to inactive chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, facilitating disease monitoring and testing of new antivirals, according to Dr Mauricia Brunetto from the University of Pisa, Italy, who spoke recently at the Asian Pacific Digestive Week (APDW) 2017 in Hong Kong.
A new technology involving the use of monocyte-derived hepatocyte-like (MH) cells has demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI), data presented at the Asian Pacific Digestive Week (APDW) 2017 held in Hong Kong have shown.
