Optimized Treatment and Regression of HBV-induced Compensated Liver Cirrhosis

Summary

Six hundreds patients with chronic hepatitis B clinically diagnosed as compensated liver cirrhosis are randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio. One arm is entecavir alone for 2 years; the other is entecavir alone for the first 0.5 year, entecavir plus thymosin-α for 1 year, entecavir for another additional 0.5 year.Patients will be assessed at baseline, at every six months for blood cell count, liver function test, HBVDNA, AFP, prothrombin time, liver ultrasonography, and Fibroscan;

Timeline

Start

2013-06

Primary completion

2016-12

Completion

2016-12

Publications

• Wu X, Hong J, Zhou J, Sun Y, Li L, Xie W, Piao H, Xu X, Jiang W, Feng B, Chen Y, Xu M, Cheng J, Meng T, Wang B, Chen S, Kong Y, Ou X, You H, Jia J. Health-related quality of life improves after entecavir treatment in patients with compensated HBV cirrhosis. Hepatol Int. 2021 Dec;15(6):1318-1327. doi: 10.1007/s12072-021-10240-4. Epub 2021 Nov 29.
• Wu X, Zhou J, Sun Y, Ding H, Chen G, Xie W, Piao H, Xu X, Jiang W, Ma H, Ma A, Chen Y, Xu M, Cheng J, Xu Y, Meng T, Wang B, Chen S, Shi Y, Kong Y, Ou X, You H, Jia J. Prediction of liver-related events in patients with compensated HBV-induced cirrhosis receiving antiviral therapy. Hepatol Int. 2021 Feb;15(1):82-92. doi: 10.1007/s12072-020-10114-1. Epub 2021 Jan 18.

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