Effectiveness of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy in a real-world setting in a Belgian cohort of 4101 HIV patients

Objective: To describe the treatment outcomes of patients receiving dolutegravir (DTG) in a ‘real-world setting’ in Belgium. Design: Retrospective, observational, multicenter cohort. Methods: Inclusion criteria: HIV-1 patients at least 18 years old having received DTG as part of their combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) between 1 April 2014 and 1 December 2017. Primary endpoint: rate of virologic suppression, defined as plasma HIV-1 viral load less than 50 copies/ml, at weeks 24, 48, and 96. Secondary endpoints: durability, expressed as probability of experiencing loss of virologic suppress... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Nasreddine, Rakan
Florence, Eric
Vandercam, Bernard
Moutschen, Michel
Goffard, Jean-Christophe
De Munter, Paul
Delforge, Marc
Marinus, Wouter
De Wit, Stéphane
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Reihe/Periodikum: AIDS ; volume 34, issue 8, page 1151-1159 ; ISSN 0269-9370 1473-5571
Verlag/Hrsg.: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29305172
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/qad.0000000000002533

Objective: To describe the treatment outcomes of patients receiving dolutegravir (DTG) in a ‘real-world setting’ in Belgium. Design: Retrospective, observational, multicenter cohort. Methods: Inclusion criteria: HIV-1 patients at least 18 years old having received DTG as part of their combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) between 1 April 2014 and 1 December 2017. Primary endpoint: rate of virologic suppression, defined as plasma HIV-1 viral load less than 50 copies/ml, at weeks 24, 48, and 96. Secondary endpoints: durability, expressed as probability of experiencing loss of virologic suppression by week 96 (defined as two consecutive HIV-1 viral load measurements of at least 200 copies/ml after having initially achieved virologic suppression); immunological response at weeks 24, 48, and 96; incidence of and reasons for DTG discontinuation; and change in weight at week 96. Results: Four thousand, one hundred and one patients were included. Through 96 weeks, virologic suppression rate was 96% (on-treatment analysis), probability of experiencing loss of virologic suppression was 7%, and mean increase in CD4 + cell count was 100 cells/μl (SD 220). There were 785 (19.1%) discontinuations of DTG (8.9 discontinuations per 100 patient-years). The most common cause of discontinuation was an adverse drug reaction (ADR; 9.5%) with neuropsychiatric toxicity being the most prevalent (5.2%; 2.4 discontinuations per 100 patient-years). By week 96, the median change in weight for the study population was +2.0 kg (IQR −1 to 5). Conclusion: In this large cohort, DTG showed excellent virologic efficacy and was generally well tolerated. Whether DTG results in undesirable weight gain or rather statistically significant results, remains a debate.