NCT05357235

Brief Summary

Chronic hepatitis B seriously endangers the health of our people, especially the occurrence of HCC, which brings huge economic burden and life threat to our people. 84% - 92% of HCC in China is related to chronic HBV infection. How to further reduce the risk of liver cancer is an urgent problem to be solved in clinical research and an important direction. Although NAs treatment can make patients achieve the negative transformation of virus, it can not effectively reduce the level of virus antigen, and it also lacks the ability to improve the immune clearance of virus. As a result, the incidence of liver cancer in patients with long-term NA treatment is still 4.5% - 10.5%, and the incidence of HCC in patients with hypoviremia in Na treatment is higher. In current clinical practice, nearly 1 / 3 of patients treated with NAs can not reach the detection line of highly sensitive reagent. It is an important measure to make the patients with hypoviremia and inactive low virus replication treated by NAs below the detection line of highly sensitive reagent and further reduce the risk of HCC. However, it is still not enough to minimize the risk of HCC to achieve a complete viral response only through NA treatment. The long-term follow-up showed that the incidence of HBsAg disappeared by only 2.0% - 0.0% regardless of the long-term treatment of HBsAg. Therefore, the most important measure to minimize the occurrence of HCC is to optimize the treatment of NA treated patients with low virus replication and inactive patients with low virus replication to achieve complete virus response and clinical cure. The purpose of this study is to explore the optimal treatment scheme for chronic hepatitis B NA treated patients with hypoviremia and natural low virus replication patients to significantly reduce the risk of HCC.

Trial Health

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Enrollment
1,200

participants targeted

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Timeline
Completed

Started Jan 2022

Typical duration for all trials

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

January 1, 2022

Completed
4 months until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

April 27, 2022

Completed
5 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

May 2, 2022

Completed
2.6 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

December 1, 2024

Completed
Same day until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

December 1, 2024

Completed
Last Updated

May 12, 2022

Status Verified

May 1, 2022

Enrollment Period

2.9 years

First QC Date

April 27, 2022

Last Update Submit

May 9, 2022

Conditions

Keywords

Chronic Hepatitis B infectionInactive HBsAg CarrierClinical OutcomeNucleoside analogues

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Incidence of HCC during the project study

    Once the hepatitis attack (HBV DNA \> 2000 IU / ml, ALT \>40 U / L) is reached during the observation of inactive low virus replication HBsAg carriers, the researchers will communicate with the patients and take antiviral treatment, and continue to follow-up observation. All enrolled patients were included in the continuous follow-up cohort during the study period and after the end of the project.

    48 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (5)

  • The negative conversion rate of HBV DNA after 48 weeks of treatment was optimized (below the detection line of highly sensitive detection reagent)

    48 weeks

  • The incidence of HBsAg disappearance during the study period;

    48 weeks

  • HBeAg seroconversion rate in HBeAg positive patients;

    48 weeks

  • Incidence of chronic hepatitis B during the study period

    48 weeks

  • To study the incidence of complications such as cirrhotic ascites and upper gastrointestinal bleeding during long-term follow-up.

    48 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Treatment intervention group

NA (TDF or TAF) combined with PEG-IFN was used. PEG-IFN was injected subcutaneously once a week and a personalized course of 24 weeks was used.

Drug: PEG-IFN

Non therapeutic intervention observation group

patients do not receive treatment and are observed and followed up regularly.

Interventions

PEG-IFN 180 or 135 micrograms, subcutaneously injected once a week, with a personalized treatment course of 24 weeks

Treatment intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

Age16 Years - 60 Years
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsChild (0-17), Adult (18-64)
Sampling MethodProbability Sample
Study Population

Chronic Hepatitis B patients With Inactive Hypoviremia

You may qualify if:

  • Aged from 16 to 60;
  • The positive time of HBsAg was 6 months,
  • weeks of treatment with ETV, TDF or TAF, including HBeAg positive and negative patients;
  • High sensitive reagent was used to confirm that the low level of serum HBV DNA was 20 IU / ml-2000 IU / ml.
  • Good compliance and sign informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

  • Patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis or previous decompensated liver cirrhosis;
  • Those who have used interferon within 6 months;
  • at the same time, it is associated with other virus infections, such as hepatitis A virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis D virus, hepatitis E virus, AIDS virus, etc;
  • in addition to hepatitis B, there are other serious physical and mental diseases, including uncontrolled primary kidney, heart, lung, vascular, neurological, digestive, severe metabolic diseases (such as uncontrolled hyperthyroidism, serious complications of diabetes and adrenal diseases), immune deficiency diseases, and severe infections;
  • Active or suspected malignant tumor or history of malignant tumor;
  • months before enrollment or currently receiving corticosteroids, immunosuppressants and chemotherapeutic drugs;
  • Complicated with alcoholic liver disease, autoimmune liver disease and other liver diseases;
  • HBV resistant patients;
  • PegIFN α Treatment contraindications:
  • Prohibited for known pairs α- Patients who are allergic to interferon, E. coli products, polyethylene glycol or any component of this product;
  • It is forbidden to be used in patients with autoimmune hepatitis;
  • Pregnant and lactating women;
  • Central nervous system diseases, mental diseases, uncontrolled epilepsy, non withdrawal of alcohol / drug abuse, decompensated liver cirrhosis, symptomatic heart disease, uncontrolled autoimmune diseases and severe thyroid function diseases;
  • Absolute neutrophil count before treatment ≤ 1.0 × 109 / L, platelet ≤ 80 × 109/L。

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

Department of Hepatology Division 2, Beijing Ditan Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, 100015, China

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Hepatitis B, Chronic

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Hepatitis BBlood-Borne InfectionsCommunicable DiseasesInfectionsHepadnaviridae InfectionsDNA Virus InfectionsVirus DiseasesHepatitis, Viral, HumanHepatitis, ChronicHepatitisLiver DiseasesDigestive System DiseasesChronic DiseaseDisease AttributesPathologic ProcessesPathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Central Study Contacts

Study Design

Study Type
observational
Observational Model
COHORT
Time Perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Target Duration
48 Weeks
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PI Title
Director of the second Department of liver diseases

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

April 27, 2022

First Posted

May 2, 2022

Study Start

January 1, 2022

Primary Completion

December 1, 2024

Study Completion

December 1, 2024

Last Updated

May 12, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-05

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