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    96 weeks of pegylated-Interferon- alpha-2? plus tenofovir or placebo for the treatment of hepatitis delta: the HIDIT-2 study
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Wedemeyer, Heiner; Yurdaydin, Cihan; Ernst, Stefanie; Caruntu, Florin A.; Curescu, Manuela G.; Yalcin, Kendal; Akarca, Ulus S.
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    Association Between Level of Hepatitis D Virus RNA at Week 24 of Pegylated Interferon Therapy and Outcome
    (Elsevier Science Inc, 2015) Keskin, Onur; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Tuzun, Ali; Zachou, Kalliopi; Deda, Xheni; Dalekos, George N.; Heidrich, Benjamin
    BACKGROUND & AIMS: Interferon is the only effective treatment for chronic hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection. No rules have been set for stopping treatment based on viral kinetics. We analyzed data from an international study of hepatitis D treatment to identify factors associated with outcomes of pegylated interferon treatment, with and without adefovir. METHODS: We analyzed data from the Hep-Net-International Delta Hepatitis Intervention Trial on 50 patients with compensated liver disease who tested positive for anti-HDV and HDV RNA. Subjects received pegylated interferon alpha 2a, with adefovir or placebo, or only adefovir, for 48 weeks. Twenty-four weeks after treatment ended, 41 patients were evaluated for levels of HDV RNA and DNA, liver enzymes, and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg); liver biopsy specimens were analyzed for fibrosis. Response to therapy was defined as end-of-treatment response or post-treatment week 24 virologic response. In both cases virologic response was associated with undetectable HDV RNA levels. Patients with less than a 1 log decrease in HDV RNA at the end of treatment were considered null responders. RESULTS: Based on univariate and multivariate analysis, the level of HDV RNA at week 24 of treatment was associated more strongly with response to therapy than other factors analyzed. The level of HBsAg at week 24 of treatment was associated with a response to therapy only in univariate analysis. Lack of HDV RNA at week 24 of treatment, or end of treatment, identified responders with positive predicted values of 71% and 100%, respectively. At 24 weeks after treatment, a decrease in HDV RNA level of less than 1 log, combined with no decrease in HBsAg level, identified null responders with a positive predictive value of 83%. A decrease in HDV RNA level of more than 2 log at week 24 of treatment identified null responders with a negative predictive value of 95%. CONCLUSIONS: Based on an analysis of data from a large clinical trial, the level of HDV RNA at week 24 of treatment with pegylated interferon, with or without adefovir for 48 weeks, can identify patients who will test negative for HDV RNA 24 weeks after the end of treatment. This information can be used to help physicians manage patients receiving therapy for chronic hepatitis D.
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    BASELINE ALT LEVELS BUT NOT HDV-RNA LEVELS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH RESPONSE TO PEGYLATED INTERFERON ALFA-2A TREATMENT OF DELTA HEPATITIS: DATA FROM THE HIDIT-1 TRIAL
    (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008) Wedemeyer, Heiner; Yurdaydin, Cihan; Zachou, Kalliopi; Erhardi, Annette; Cakaloglu, Yilmaz; Yalcin, Kendal; Gurel, Selim
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    Frequency, severity and impact of Peg-IFNa-associated flares in HDV infection: Results from the HIDIT-II study
    (Elsevier, 2019) Hardtke, Svenja; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Caruntu, Florin Alexandru; Curescu, Manuela; Kendal, Yalcin; Akarca, Ulus; Yurdcu, Esra
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    Implications of HBsAg, HBcAg and HDAg Immunohistochemistry in Course and Treatment of Chronic Delta Hepatitis (CDH)
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Kabacam, Gokhan; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Heidrich, Benjamin; Yalcin, Kendal; Onder, Fatih Oguz; Dienes, Hans P.; Manns, Michael P.
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    Peginterferon alfa-2a plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for hepatitis D (HIDIT-II): a randomised, placebo controlled, phase 2 trial
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2019) Wedemeyer, Heiner; Yurdaydin, Cihan; Hardtke, Svenja; Caruntu, Florin Alexandru; Curescu, Manuela G.; Yalcin, Kendal; Akarca, Ulus S.
    Background Hepatitis D is the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis. Treatment guidelines recommend 1 year of peginterferon alfa, which is effective in 25-30% of patients only. Whether prolonged therapy with peginterferon alfa-2a for 96 weeks and combination therapy with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) would increase hepatitis D virus (HDV) RNA suppression is unknown. We aimed to explore whether prolonged treatment of HDV with 96 weeks of peginterferon would increase HDV RNA response rates and reduces post-treatment relapses. Methods We did two parallel, investigator-initiated, multicentre, double-blind randomised, controlled trials at 14 study sites in Germany, Greece, Romania, and Turkey. Patients with chronic HDV infection and compensated liver disease who were aged 18 years or older were eligible for inclusion. All patients were HBsAg positive for at least 7 months, anti-HDV positive for at least 3 months, and HDV-RNA positive at the local laboratory at the screening visit. Patients were ineligible if alanine aminotransferase levels were higher than ten times above the upper limit of normal and if platelet counts were lower than 90 000 per mu L, or if they had received interferon therapy or treatment with a nucleoside and nucleotide analogue within the preceding 6 months. Patients were randomly assigned by blinded stratified block randomisation (1:1) to receive 180 mu g of peginterferon alfa-2a weekly plus either TDF (300 mg once daily) or placebo for 96 weeks. The primary endpoint was the percentage of patients with undetectable HDV RNA at the end of treatment assessed by intention to treat. The trials are registered as NCT00932971 and NCT01088659. Findings Between June 24, 2009, and Feb 28, 2011, we randomly assigned 59 HDV RNA-positive patients to receive peginterferon alfa-2a plus TDF and 61 to receive peginterferon alfa-2a plus placebo, including 48 (40%) patients with cirrhosis to the two treatment groups (23 in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus TDF group and 25 in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus placebo group). The primary endpoint was achieved in 28 (48%) of 59 patients in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus TDF group and in 20 (33%) of 61 patients in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus placebo group (odds ratio 1.84, 95% CI 0.86-3.91, p=0.12). We recorded 944 adverse events (459 in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus TDF group and 485 in the peginterferon alfa-2a plus placebo group). The most common adverse events were haematological, behavioural (eg, fatigue), musculoskeletal, influenza-like syndromes, and psychiatric complaints. Interpretation Addition of TDF resulted in no significant improvement in HDV RNA response rates at the end of treatment. These findings highlight that alternative treatment options are needed for hepatitis D. Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Pegylated interferon-alfa-2A plus adefovir combination therapy is superior to pegylated interferon-alfa-2A alone or adefovir monotherapy in reducing HBsAg levels in hdvcoinfected patients with low HBV viremia
    (John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006) Wedemeyer, Heiner; Yurdaydin, Cihan; Zachou, Kalliopi; Erhardt, Alexander; Drebber, Ulrike; Cakaloglu, Ya; Degertekin, Ha
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    Pegylated-Interferon-a-2a plus Tenofovir or Placebo for the treatment of hepatitis delta: First results of the HIDIT-2 study
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Yurdaydin, Cihan; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Caruntu, Florin A.; Curescu, Manuela G.; Yalcin, Kendal; Akarca, Ulus S.; Gurel, Selim
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    Residual low HDV viraemia is associated HDV RNA relapse after PEG-IFNa-based antiviral treatment of hepatitis delta: Results from the HIDIT-II study
    (Wiley, 2020) Bremer, Birgit; Anastasiou, Olympia E.; Hardtke, Svenja; Caruntu, Florin Alexandru; Curescu, Manuela G.; Yalçın, Kendal; Akarca, Ulus S.; Gürel, Selim; Zeuzem, Stefan; Erhardt, Andreas; Luth, Stefan; Papatheodoridis, George, V.; Radu, Monica; Idilman, Ramazan; Manns, Michael P.; Cornberg, Markus; Yurdaydın, Cihan; Wedemeyer, Heiner
    The role of low levels of HDV-RNA during and after interferon therapy of hepatitis D is unknown. We re-analysed HDV RNA in 372 samples collected in the HIDIT-2 trial (Wedemeyer et al, Lancet Infectious Diseases 2019) with the Robogene assay (RA; Jena Analytics). Data were compared with the previously reported in-house assay (IA). We detected HDV-RNA in one-third of samples previously classified as undetectable using the highly sensitive RA. Low HDV viraemia detectable at week 48 or week 96 was associated with a high risk for post-treatment relapse, defined as HDV RNA positivity in both assays at week 120. HDV RNA relapses occurred in 10/15 (67%) patients with detectable low HDV RNA at week 48 and in 10/13 (77%) patients with low viraemia samples at week 96. In contrast, the post-treatment relapse rate was lower in patients with undetectable HDV RNA in both assays during treatment.
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    Role of immunohistochemistry for hepatitis D and hepatitis B virus in hepatitis delta
    (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2014) Kabaçam, Gökhan; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Savaş, Berna; Dalekos, George; Tabak, Fehmi; İdilman, Ramazan; Erhardt, Andreas; Yalçın, Kendal; Bozdayı, Mithat A.; Bozkaya, Hakan; Manns, Michael; Dienes, Hans; Yurdaydın, Cihan; Keskin, Onur
    Background & Aims: Immunohistochemical assessment of liver tissue in chronic delta hepatitis (CDH) is underinvestigated. Aim of the study was (i) to assess variables associated with hepatitis D antigen (HDAg), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) staining in the liver. Methods: Demographic, biochemical and virologic data collected from the HIDIT 1 study were used. HBsAg, HBcAg and HDAg immunohistochemical (IHC) staining was semiquantitatively assessed. Results: Hepatitis D antigen immunohistochemical staining displayed positive correlations with age and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and negative correlations with serum HBsAg (P = 0.01 for all). HBsAg IHC displayed a negative correlation with gamma glutamyl transferase and positive correlations with serum HBV DNA, serum HBsAg levels and HBeAg serology (P < 0.001, P = 0.02 and P = 0.007 respectively). HBcAg staining was mainly nuclear and displayed negative correlations with serum HBsAg and histologic activity (P = 0.002 and P = 0.02 respectively). Pegylated IFN based treatment led to a decline of all IHC markers, however, these markers had no impact on treatment outcome. Conclusions: These data suggest an association of liver injury with HDAg expression in CDH whereas the negative correlation between HBcAg expression and liver injury and the overall nuclear localization of HBcAg suggest that HBcAg does not contribute to liver injury in CDH. HDV cases with high level of HBV replication, high serum HBsAg levels, HBeAg positivity, that are probably in the earlier stages of disease (low gamma-glutamyl transferase), had a more intense HBsAg staining profile. Overall, the data enforce the importance of HDAg and HBsAg in different phases of CDH infection.
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    Ten-year follow-up of a randomized controlled clinical trial in chronic hepatitis delta
    (Wiley, 2020) Wranke, Anika; Hardtke, Svenja; Heidrich, Benjamin; Dalekos, George; Yalçın, Kendal; Tabak, Fehmi; Gürel, Selim; Çakaloglu, Yılmaz; Akarca, Ulus S.; Lammert, Frank; Haeussinger, Dieter; Mueller, Tobias; Woebse, Michael; Manns, Michael P.; İdilman, Ramazan; Cornberg, Markus; Wedemeyer, Heiner; Yurdaydın, Cihan
    Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection causes the most severe form of viral hepatitis. PEG-interferon alpha-2a (PEG-IFN alpha-2a) is the only effective treatment but its long-term clinical impact is unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term outcome after 48 weeks of pegylated interferon alpha-2a therapy. We performed a retrospective follow-up study of the Hep-Net-International-Delta-Hepatitis-Intervention-Study 1 (HIDIT-I trial). Patients had received 48 weeks of treatment with either PEG-IFN alpha-2a plus adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) (Group I), PEG-IFN alpha-2a alone (Group II) or adefovir dipivoxil alone (Group III). Liver-related complications were defined as liver-related death, liver transplantation, liver cancer and hepatic decompensation defined as development of Child-Pugh scores B or C or an increase in Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores of five or more points in relation to baseline values. Patients were considered for further analysis when they were retreated with PEG-IFN alpha-2a. Follow-up data (at least 1 visit beyond post-treatment week 24) were available for 60 patients [Group I, (n = 19), Group II (n = 20), Group III (n = 21)]. Mean time of follow-up was 8.9 (1.6 - 13.4) years. 19 patients were retreated with IFN-based therapy: 42% (n = 8) in PEG-IFN alpha-2a arms and 58% (n = 11) in the adefovir only arm. Clinical complications on long-term follow-up occurred in 17 patients and were associated with nonresponse to therapy and baseline cirrhosis. The annual event-free survival rate in patients with cirrhosis vs noncirrhotic patients at year 5 and 10 was 70% vs 91% and 35% vs 76%. Long-term follow-up of a large randomized clinical trial suggests that off-treatment HDV RNA response to PEG-IFN alpha-2a treatment leads to improved clinical long-term outcome.