Author information
1
Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: Johannes.vermehren@kgu.de.
2
Hepatology Section, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, New York University, Langone Health, New York, USA.
3
Medizinische Klinik 1, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Abstract
Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been revolutionized with the development of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs). Eight to twelve weeks of all-oral, once-daily treatments is now the standard of care and viral eradication can be achieved in >95% across different patient populations. Despite these advances, several unresolved issues remain, including treatment of HCV genotype 3, chronic kidney disease, and in patients in whom DAA therapy has failed. Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) and sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir (SOF/VEL/VOX) are the most recently approved DAA regimens. Given the overwhelming success of modern DAA-based therapies, GLE/PIB and SOF/VEL/VOX are also likely to represent the last DAAs to be approved. Both are pangenotypic, once-daily, all-oral DAA combinations that have the potential to close the gaps in the current DAA treatment portfolio. Here, we review the challenges associated with current DAAs and how these two regimens may be implemented in existing treatment algorithms.