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Modeling-Based Response-Guided Hepatitis C Treatment During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Jan 20;10(2):ofad027. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad027.eCollection 2023 Feb.
1Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
2Department of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, USA.
3The Program for Experimental & Theoretical Modeling, Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
4Department of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Abstract
Treating hepatitis C virus (HCV) in pregnancy would address HCV during prenatal care and potentially reduce the risk of vertical transmission. Response-guided therapy could provide a means to individualize and the reduce duration of HCV treatment during pregnancy. Data from a 27-year-old woman indicated that, pretreatment, HCV was stable and that it dropped in a biphasic manner during sofosbuvir/velpatasvir therapy, reaching target not detected at time of delivery-16 days post-initiation of therapy. Mathematical modeling of measured HCV at days 0, 7, and 14 predicted that cure could have been achieved after 7 weeks of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, reducing the duration of therapy by 5 weeks.