1. Is 6 months of bedaquiline enough? Results from the compassionate use of bedaquiline in Armenia and Georgia
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Yegiazaryan L, Naira Khachatryan, Helena Huerga, Atshemyan H, Mathieu Bastard, Chumburidze N, N. Kiria, Armen Hayrapetyan, Zaza Avaliani, Tinatin Kotrikadze, Francis Varaine, Kirakosyan O, Cathy Hewison, N Lachenal, and Qayyum S
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Adult ,Compassionate Use Trials ,Male ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Georgia ,Tuberculosis ,Antitubercular Agents ,Logistic regression ,Cohort Studies ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant ,medicine ,Culture conversion ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Diarylquinolines ,Adverse effect ,Retrospective Studies ,Coinfection ,business.industry ,Compassionate Use ,Armenia ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Hepatitis C ,Logistic Models ,Treatment Outcome ,Infectious Diseases ,030228 respiratory system ,chemistry ,Cohort ,Female ,Bedaquiline ,business ,Fluoroquinolones ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
BACKGROUND AND SETTING Bedaquiline (BDQ) was initially only available through compassionate use programmes. OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness and safety of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment containing BDQ. METHOD Retrospective analysis of data from patients receiving BDQ through compassionate use in Armenia and Georgia from April 2013 to April 2015. Logistic regression was used to assess the risk factors associated with unsuccessful treatment outcomes. RESULTS Of 82 patients included, 84.2% (69/82) had fluoroquinolone-resistant MDR-TB and 43.4% (23/53) were seropositive for the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The culture conversion rate was 84.4% (54/64), and 18.5% (10/54) reverted back to positive. In total, 79.3% (65/82) of the patients reported at least one adverse event. Serious adverse events were reported in 14 patients, with 10/14 patients experiencing fatal outcomes-6/10 related to advanced TB and 2/10 assessed as possibly related to BDQ. Treatment outcomes were as follows: 58.5% treatment success, 12.2% deaths, 7.3% failures and 21.9% lost to follow-up. HCV coinfection was associated with unsuccessful outcomes (adjusted OR 4.45, 95%CI 1.23-16.13). CONCLUSION BDQ through compassionate use showed relatively good success rates and safety profiles in a cohort with difficult-to-treat MDR-TB. High rates of reversion may indicate that >24 weeks of BDQ is necessary in some cases. HCV coinfection should be diagnosed and treatment considered in MDR-TB patients.
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- 2018