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World J Hepatol. Oct 28, 2017; 9(30): 1190-1196
Published online Oct 28, 2017. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v9.i30.1190
Published online Oct 28, 2017. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v9.i30.1190
Safety and efficacy of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir on hepatitis C eradication in hepatitis C virus/human immunodeficiency virus co-infected patients
Xiaoping He, George Everett, Khalid Abusaada, Vincent Hsu, the Internal Medicine Residency Program of Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL 32804, United States
Lynne Hopkins, Willie M Carter, Cynthia SchroppDyce, Sunshine Care Center, Florida Department of Health in Orange County, Orlando, FL 32804, United States
Author contributions: He X contributed to protocol design and development, data collection and analysis, and writing of the first draft of the manuscript; Hopkins L contributed to protocol design and development, and writing of the manuscript; Carter WM and SchroppDyce C contributed to protocol development; Everett G, Abusaada K and Hsu V contributed to critical manuscript revision.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Sunshine Care Center, Florida Department of Health in Orange County.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no financial relationships to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Xiaoping He, MD, PhD, the Internal Medicine Residency Program of Florida Hospital, 2501 North Orange Ave, Suite 235, Orlando, FL 32804, United States. xiaoping.he.md@flhosp.org
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Received: April 6, 2017
Peer-review started: April 10, 2017
First decision: May 19, 2017
Revised: July 14, 2017
Accepted: September 3, 2017
Article in press: September 4, 2017
Published online: October 28, 2017
Peer-review started: April 10, 2017
First decision: May 19, 2017
Revised: July 14, 2017
Accepted: September 3, 2017
Article in press: September 4, 2017
Published online: October 28, 2017
Core Tip
Core tip: This is a retrospective study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir on hepatitis C eradication in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection in an urban HIV clinic. It demonstrated the high rates of SVR12 of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir on HCV eradication in patients co-infected with HCV and HIV, regardless of HCV baseline levels, HCV treatment history or cirrhosis condition. The oral combination of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir represents a safe and well tolerated HCV treatment option that does not require modification for many of the common HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART). Occasional HIV virologic rebound occurred but later resolved without the need to change ART.