Successful treatment with adefovir of one patient whose cryoglobulinemic vasculitis relapsed under lamivudine therapy and who was diagnosed to have HBV virologic breakthrough with YMDD mutations

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Tarih

2006

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Japan Soc Internal Medicine

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

We report a patient whose cryoglobulinemic vasculitis recurred due to reactivation of lamivudine-resistant HBV. Our patient with hepatitis B-related cryoglobulinemic vasculitis was administered lamivudine. Her vasculitis regressed, ALT normalized, HBV-DNA became negative. Under lamivudine therapy, her cryoglobulinemic cutaneous vasculitis recurred. ALT increased significantly; it was found that tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate (YMDD) motif in the DNA polymerase gene had been replaced by YIDD. Adefovir was added to lamivudine. During follow-up, her purpura disappeared, ALT normalized, HBV-DNA became negative. Our patient is the first whose cryoglobulinemic vasculitis recurred under lamivudine, who had a HBV virologic breakthrough with YMDD mutation, and was successfully treated with adefovir.

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Anahtar Kelimeler

Hepatitis B Virus, YMDD Motif Mutant, Adefovir, Lamivudine, Cryoglobulinemic, Vasculitis

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Internal Medicine

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Q3

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Q3

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45

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21

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