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Jacopo Vecchiet

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HepaDisk – A new quality of life questionnaire for HCV patients

2019

Abstract Background Since most patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection now receive treatment irrespective of liver disease severity, special attention to patient quality of life (QoL), including psycho-social aspects, is required. No QoL questionnaire is specific for patients with HCV. Aims To develop and validate a short Italian questionnaire (HepaDisk) assessing the QoL of patients affected by HCV with intuitive graphic results that is understandable by patients and physicians. Methods A questionnaire, drafted by a steering committee, underwent a Delphi survey. A multicenter, observational study was conducted to validate the developed HepaDisk versus other tools (CLDQ-I, SF-36, WP…

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Multiclass HCV resistance to direct-acting antiviral failure in real-life patients advocates for tailored second-line therapies

2017

Background & Aims: Despite the excellent efficacy of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) reported in clinical trials, virological failures can occur, often associated with the development of resistance-associated substitutions (RASs). This study aimed to characterize the presence of clinically relevant RASs to all classes in real-life DAA failures. Methods: Of the 200 virological failures that were analyzed in 197 DAA-treated patients, 89 with pegylated-interferon+ribavirin (PegIFN+RBV) and 111 without (HCV-1a/1b/1g/2/3/4=58/83/1/6/24/25; 56.8% treatment experienced; 65.5% cirrhotic) were observed. Sanger sequencing of NS3/NS5A/NS5B was performed by home-made protocols, at failure (N= 200) and w…

Male0301 basic medicinehepatitis C virusSustained Virologic ResponseSofosbuvirHepacivirusDrug ResistanceHepacivirusresistance-associated substitutionsViral Nonstructural ProteinsVARIANTSNS5Amedicine.disease_causeGastroenterologychemistry.chemical_compound0302 clinical medicineRecurrenceINFECTIONantiviral therapyMedicinehepatitis C viruViralTreatment FailureChronicantiviral therapy; direct-acting antivirals; hepatitis C virus; resistance test; resistance-associated substitutions; hepatologybiologyGENOTYPE 1virus diseasesMiddle Agedantiviral therapy; direct-acting antivirals; hepatitis C virus; resistance test; resistance-associated substitutionsSettore MED/07 - Microbiologia e Microbiologia ClinicaHepatitis CItalyCombinationInterferonDrug Therapy CombinationFemale030211 gastroenterology & hepatologyAuthor Keywords:antiviral therapyRIBAVIRINSequence AnalysisHumanmedicine.drugmedicine.medical_specialtyDaclatasvirGenotypeHepatitis C virusAntiviral AgentsLONG-TERM PERSISTENCEDACLATASVIR03 medical and health sciencesDrug Therapyantiviral therapy; direct-acting antivirals; hepatitis C virus; resistance test; resistance-associated substitutions; Aged; Antiviral Agents; Drug Resistance Viral; Drug Therapy Combination; Female; Genotype; Hepacivirus; Hepatitis C Chronic; Humans; Interferons; Italy; Male; Middle Aged; Mutation; Recurrence; Ribavirin; Sequence Analysis DNA; Sofosbuvir; Sustained Virologic Response; Treatment Failure; Viral Nonstructural Proteins; HepatologyTREATMENT-NAIVEInternal medicineDrug Resistance ViralRibavirinHumansNS5Aresistance testdirect-acting antiviralsAgedAntiviral Agentresistance-associated substitutiondirect-acting antiviralHepaciviruHepatologyresistance test KeyWords Plus:HEPATITIS-C VIRUSbusiness.industryRibavirinViral Nonstructural ProteinSequence Analysis DNADNAHepatitis C ChronicHepatologybiology.organism_classificationClinical trial030104 developmental biologySOFOSBUVIRchemistrySequence AnalysihepatologyMutationImmunologyInterferonsSofosbuvirbusiness
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