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Efficacy of Short-term Immunosuppressive Therapy and Anti-allergenic Therapy in Severe Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Hepatitis B

Not Applicable
Conditions
Severe Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Hepatitis B
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT01627236
Lead Sponsor
Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
Brief Summary

The investigators will investigate the clinicopathological features of chronic hepatitis B patients with severe exacerbation selected by uniform criteria, and treated with early introduction or reintroduction of corticosteroids and anti-allergenic therapy, in order to clarify the benefits and limitations of the effects of corticosteroids and anti-allergenic therapy for amelioration of clinically severe exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B. The investigators also observe the immune index in the change before and after the treatment, in order to searching for some prognostic index.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
120
Inclusion Criteria
  • serum hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg) positive for at least 6 months;
  • All patients had a poor general condition, manifested as general malaise, fatigue, jaundice and so on;
  • serum T-Bil of 85.5 mmol/L or more; or serum T-Bil rises 17.1 mmol/L or more per day; or PTA of less than 60%;
  • serum ALT of 20 times or more the ULN.
Exclusion Criteria
  • superinfection or co-infection with hepatitis A, C, D, E, cytomegalovirus and HIV, or Epstein-Barr virus;
  • other liver diseases such as alcoholic liver disease, drug-induced hepatitis, Wilson disease and autoimmune hepatitis;
  • ascites or gastrointestinal bleeding or peptic ulcer or esophageal varix by electronic gastroscope examination;
  • decompensated liver cirrhosis;
  • severe bacterial or fungal infections;
  • a history of diabetes or cardiac disease or hypertension or nephrosis.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
glucocorticoid treatment groupmethylprednisolone-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Child-Pugh degreeeight weeks
model for end-stage liver diseaseeight weeks
survival rateeight weeks
HBV-DNAeight weeks
liver functioneight weeks

ALT,albumin,bilirubine,

prothrombin activityeight weeks
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
length of patient stayeight weeks
hospitalization costseight weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Deparment of Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

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Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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