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now largely superseded lamivudine as the firstline therapy of choice for the treatment of cHb in australia. entecavir can be used in patients who have developed resistance to lamivudine. Higher doses of 1.0 mg daily are required to suppress lamivudine-resistant HbV. despite higher doses, antiviral activity remains lower than that seen with wild-type HbV. despite its improved potency, patients with lamivudine-resistant mutants are more likely to develop resistance to entecavir (17% after four years of treatment). 14 entecavir is thus not the best choice for patients with lamivudine resistance, who should ideally be treated with adefovir. 1 Adefovir adefovir, an acyclic phosphorate nucleoside analogue, is an effective antiviral agent. the control of viral replication and improved biochemical, histological and clinical outcomes have been demonstrated. adefovir is orally active and well tolerated at the 10 mg daily dose recommended for use in HbV infection. it may be taken without regard to food. the potency of adefovir at this dose is less than that of other available antivirals. Higher doses, while more effective, cannot be used because of nephrotoxicity. the renal function at the 10mg dose does, however, need to be monitored, as renal toxicity can occur with long-term use. 1 While in the us adefovir is used in the first line setting, currently the Pbs requires that adefovir be limited in the setting of lamivudine resistance. in this setting, adefovir is added to lamivudine therapy for the first three months in patients with compensated disease, and for the first 12 months in patients with decompensated disease; adefovir is then used on its own, as monotherapy. the rate of resistance to adefovir in the first line setting is much lower than lamivudine (0% after one year of treatment, 1% after three years and 30% after five years of treatment). 15 unfortunately, the rates of resistance to adefovir are much higher in patients already resistant to lamivudine. Long term combination therapy with adefovir and lamivudine in patients with lamivudine resistance is associated with much lower rates of resistance. 1 although the Pbs does not currently fund this approach, combination lamivudine/adefovir in this setting is likely to gain approval in the near future. Future therapies (not yet approved in Australia) emtricitabine, tenofovir and telbivudine are agents not yet available in australia, but with known efficacy against HbV replication. it is likely that some or all will be available as Pbs subsidised therapy in australia in the near future, depending on their efficacy, tolerability and rates of resistance. overseas data suggest that tenofovir may have the most beneficial profile of these three new agents. 1 tenofovir, like adefovir, is an acyclic adenine nucleotide, with potent activity against HbV. it is currently in use for the treatment of HiV infection. as a result of its potency, tenofovir is particularly effective in patients with lamivudine-resistant cHb, and is likely to have an important role in treatment-naïve patients with HbV infection. 1 emtricitabine, like lamivudine, is an Lnucleoside agent with a level of potency and resistance similar to lamivudine. telbivudine is also an L-nucleoside agent that may be more potent than lamivudine, with rates of resistance that are lower than those of lamivudine, but substantially higher than those of entecavir and adefovir. 1 both emtricitabine and telbivudine are ineffective in the setting of a lamivudineresistant virus. these drugs may find their place in combination therapy regimes, which are under investigation at the present time. Monitoring patients on antiviral therapy Patients should be monitored regularly while on therapy to document their response to antiviral therapy, to detect adverse side effects of therapy and to facilitate the early detection of antiviral resistance. Monitoring needs to be more frequent in patients treated with pegylated interferons compared to those treated with nucleoside analogues because of the risk of bone marrow suppression, b Positive – all you wanted to know about hepatitis b: a guide for primary care providers 61
7 Treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection neuropsychological side effects and other complications of interferon-based therapy. for patients treated with pegylated interferon, frequent (e.g. fortnightly) monitoring is recommended until the treatment dose is stabilised. Patients can then reduce the frequency of their visits to every four to six weeks. Particular attention should be paid to the full blood count, white cell count differential and platelet count at each visit, in case dose adjustments are required. in patients treated with nucleoside analogues, monitoring should occur on a three monthly basis—particularly for patients with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis, and for those patients on antiviral therapy who have a high incidence of viral resistance. full blood count, liver function tests and HbV serology (for Hbeag-positive patients) should be performed at each of these visits. the optimal frequency for HbV dna testing remains to be determined. threemonthly HbV dna testing appears appropriate for patients with high viral resistance rates or in those for whom the likelihood of clinical complications due to delaying therapy for resistance is judged to be high. the frequency may be reduced to four or six monthly for patients with low resistance rates and in those for whom the risk of complications of resistance is judged to be low. 4,16 Antiviral drug resistance the emergence of antiviral drug resistance is the major challenge confronting clinicians who manage patients with cHb. recently, the following definition for antiviral resistance to nucleoside analogue treatment was proposed: a confirmed 10-fold increase in serum HbV dna level (> 1 log 10 iu/mL) from nadir following initially effective treatment constitutes secondary treatment failure which, in the absence of poor adherence or drug substitution, is almost always due to the emergence of the drug-resistant HbV mutants. a rebound in serum HbV dna always precedes the biochemical and histological markers of increased HbV disease activity, and patients with underlying cirrhosis are at an increased risk of decompensation following 6 b Positive – all you wanted to know about hepatitis b: a guide for primary care providers the emergence of resistance. early diagnosis of secondary treatment failure and the institution of appropriate antiviral therapy remain key to preventing hepatic decompensation, liver failure, death or liver transplantation in patients who develop drug resistant mutations. 16 Predictors of lamivudine resistance include high pre-treatment HbV dna levels, non-asian ethnicity, male gender and persistent viral replication with continued antiviral therapy. 1 the molecular characterisation of genotypic changes that confer resistance is not usually performed in clinical practice, and there is no indication that such laboratory analysis will be reimbursed by Medicare in the near future. While the sequencing of HbV drug-resistant mutations is largely regarded as a research tool at present, it can provide important information and influence the selection of the most appropriate therapeutic antiviral strategy. in relation to reimbursement options by the Pbs, the management of patients who develop lamivudine resistance is limited to switching therapy to either adefovir or entecavir. However, the risk of the emergence of subsequent adefovir or entecavir resistance is much higher in this cohort of patients than in treatmentnaïve patients. there is now abundant evidence that the addition of adefovir to lamivudine therapy, rather than a switch to adefovir monotherapy, is the preferred management strategy for patients who develop lamivudine resistance. in those patients who have been placed on adefovir monotherapy, (for lamivudine resistance), the development of resistance to adefovir can often be managed by the re-introduction of lamivudine and the continuation of adefovir. at present the Pbs will not provide reimbursement for combined therapy in this patient group. However, it is expected that combination therapy with adefovir and lamivudine for this patient group only will be approved in the near future. the molecular virology of HbV viral resistance is discussed in more detail in chapter 2: Virology: viral replication and drug resistance.
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