Abbvie presents new, detailed results from its hepatitis C development program.
TURQUOISE-II is a global, multi-center, randomized, open-label study evaluating the efficacy and safety of 12 weeks or 24 weeks of treatment with AbbVie’s regimen with ribavirin (RBV) in adult patients with genotype 1 (GT1) chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with compensated liver cirrhosis. Patients achieved sustained virologic response rates 12 weeks post-treatment (SVR12) of 91.8 percent and 95.9 percent in the 12-week and 24-week treatment arms, respectively. Patients in the study were either new to therapy or treatment-experienced (failed previous treatment with pegylated interferon and RBV).
“Results from the TURQUOISE-II study demonstrate that high SVR12 rates can be achieved in GT1 patients with compensated liver cirrhosis in both 12-week and 24-week treatment durations,” said Fred Poordad, M.D., lead clinical investigator for TURQUOISE-II and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. “These data are encouraging, as cirrhotic patients are often a difficult-to-treat population in the HCV community.”
Abbvie presented the results at the international liver congress and has also published the results in NEJM.
