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Entecavir plus adefovir combination therapy versus lamivudine add‐on adefovir for lamivudine‐resistant chronic hepatitis B: A meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
Zeng Teng,
Xu Hua,
Liu JunYing,
Lei Yu,
Zhong Shan,
Zhou Zhi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.92
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1552-4604
pISSN - 0091-2700
DOI - 10.1002/jcph.351
Subject(s) - adefovir , lamivudine , entecavir , medicine , chronic hepatitis , virology , gastroenterology , pharmacology , virus
Abstract To determine whether adefovir (ADV) in combination with entecavir (ETV) is more effective than with lamivudine (LAM) in patients with lamivudine‐resistant chronic HBV infection, electronic databases were searched through May 10th, 2013 to obtain relevant trials which met the inclusion criteria. Meta‐analysis was performed on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non‐randomized studies. Four trials containing a total of 323 patients were included. Serum HBV DNA reductions after 3 and 6 months of treatment in the ETV + ADV group were greater than that of LAM + ADV group (mean difference (MD) = 0.90, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.74–1.07, P < 0.00001; MD = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.57–1.06, P < 0.00001). The rate of 6 months HBV DNA undetectability with ETV and ADV was higher than that of LAM and ADV (relative risk (RR) = 1.63, 95% CI: 1.14–2.34, P < 0.007). There were higher rates of serum ALT normalization than those in LAM + ADV group after 6 months of treatment (RR = 1.40, 95% CI: 1.11–1.77, P < 0.005). The ETV + ADV group had lower viral breakthrough and genotypic mutation rates than LAM + ADV group after 12 months of treatment (RR = 0.24, 95% CI: 0.10–0.58, P = 0.002). The combination of ETV plus ADV is a more effective rescue therapy than LAM add‐on ADV in patients with LAM‐resistant HBV.