Klin Farmakol Farm. 2019;33(1):32-37 | DOI: 10.36290/far.2019.005

Current pharmacotherapy of viral hepatitis

Petr Husa
Klinika infekčních chorob LF MU a FN Brno

Acute viral hepatitis therapy is under hospitalization at departments of infectious diseases and does not differ according to different types of viral hepatitis and it is only symptomatic. Acute hepatitis B is in the most cases benign disease and it does not require antiviral therapy. Use of oral antiviral drugs is indicated only in serious or protracted acute hepatitis B. Acute hepatitis E therapy is only symptomatic in most cases, serious clinical forms of this hepatitis are treated empirically with ribavirin, this drug is also used in chronic hepatitis E. At present, the absolute majority of chronic hepatitis B patients in Europe and in the Czech Republic as well in treated with tenofovir or entecavir. Chronic hepatitis C therapy using Directly Acting Antivirals (DAA) has high efficacy (till 100 %), minimum contra-indications and extraordinarily favorable safety profile. Current possibilities of therapy represent the fixed combinations of sofosbuvir with other DAA (velpatasvir, velpatasvir and voxilaprevir, ledipasvir), fixed combination of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir, or fixed combination of elbasvir and grazoprevir. Hepatitis D is extremely rare in the Czech Republic, pegylated interferon alpha is only one option for therapy.

Keywords: hepatitis A–E, tenofovir, entecavir, ribavirin, sofosbuvir, ledipasvir, velpatasvir, voxilaprevir, glecaprevir, pibrentasvir,elbasvir

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