Conditions: Hepatitis C
Keywords: Boceprevir Hepatitis C Genotype 3
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 11
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to test the potential antiviral efficacy of triple-combination therapy with Peginterferon α-2b + ribavirin + boceprevir (PRB) in patients with HCV genotype 3 who previously failed Peginterferon α + ribavirin (non-responders or relapsers).

Detailed description:
i) Obtain preliminary information on the association between important baseline and on-treatment factors and SVR in this patient population. Variables to be examined may include gender, age, advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis (F3 or F4 estimated by Fibroscan), baseline viral load, RVR, wk 8 viral load, end-of-treatment viral response.

ii) Evaluate adverse events. iii) Evaluate viral resistance.

Arms:
arm 1: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Boceprevir
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: All patients will receive a 4-week lead-in with Peginterferon and Ribavirin therapy, followed by 24 weeks of Pegetron 1.5microg/kg + weight-based ribavirin + boceprevir 800mg tid. HCV RNA (Cobas TaqMan) will be measured at baseline and at treatment weeks 4, 6,8,12,16,20,24 and 28, and post-treatment weeks 12 and 24 (to obtain SVR-12 and SVR-24 results).

Protocol document: