인터페론 치료에 반응이 없었던 예들을 포함한 만성 B형 간염 환자에서 lamivudine의 단기 치료 효과 = The Efficacy of Short Term Lamivuine Treatment in the Patients with Chronic Active Heapatis B patients, including Non-responders to Interferon

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The efficacy and safety of lamivudine administration according to the presence or abscence of past history of interferon treatment were studied in 22 patients with chronic active hepatitis B who were diagnosed at ChungNam National Univerity Hospital. Nine of these patiens were no responders to interferon treatment. The change of HBV DNA, serum ALT and HBeAg values was analyzed during 12 weeks of lamivudine treatment. The results were as follow :
1. The mean values of HBV DNA and serum ALT were significantly reduced from 1793 9 to 2.0 pg/ml and from 202.5 to 36.3 IU/L after lamivudine treatment (p<0.001). The mean reduction rates of serum HBV DNA and serum ALT were 99.7% and 70.4%.
2. HBV DNA was undetectable in 18 patierits(81.8%) and serum ALT was normalized in 16 patients(68.2%%) after 12 weeks of lamivudine treatment. But there were temporary elevations of serum ALT value comparing to pretreatment value in 5 patients.
3. HBeAg was undetectable in 4 patients(18.1%) and in these 4 patients, anti-HBe was detected after 12 weeks treatment.
4. There was no significant difference of HBV DNA clearance rate and normalization rate of serum ALT between above and below 200 pg/mI group according to pretreatment HBV DNA values(p=0.74, p=0.08).
5. Each clearance rates of HBV DNA in patients without previous interferon treatment and patients with previous interferon treatment were 84.6% and 77.8%(p=0.68). Each clearance rates of HBeAg in patients without previous interferon treatment and with previous interferon treatment were 15.5% and 22.2%(p=0.683).
6. During the treatment periods, adverse effects of lamivudine were negligible in most patients except temporary leukopenia in one patient.
Conclusively, lamivudine treatment over the short term period for patients with chronic active hepatitis B was effective in suppression of viral replication and improvement of abnormal serum ALT. Also the efficacy of lamivudine treatment was out of all relation to previous interferon treatment and adverse effects of this drug were negliable. But further study for the efficacy of long term period-lamivudine treatment and appearance of mutant shoud be necessary.