Abstract
In Poland, active HCV infection affects between 0.4 and 0.5% of the population, i.e., about 150,000 people, while the number of patients with epilepsy is estimated to be 350,000-400,000. Currently available antiviral therapies show little interaction with neurological drugs. The aim of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the treatment of chronic HCV infection in patients with coexisting epilepsy. A total of 184 epilepsy patients were selected from the group of 10,152 HCV-infected patients treated for HCV infection within the Epiter-2 database from 2015 to 2018. Comparing the effectiveness and safety of anti-HCV regimens between the patients with comorbid epilepsy and 3573 patients without comorbidities was our study's objective. The effectiveness of anti-HCV treatment was high in both the sample and the control group. No statistically significant SVR difference was observed between the sample group, with ITT = 93.5% and mITT = 95.5%, and the control group, with ITT = 95.2% and mITT = 97.5%, regardless of the genotype and the stage of liver disease at the start of therapy. The treatment was safe in patients with epilepsy. The effectiveness and safety of HCV treatment in patients with epilepsy are comparable to those of patients with no significant comorbidities.
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