AbbVie announces positive results from Viekira Pak study

18 November 2015

Global biopharmaceutical company AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has announced positive results from a Phase IIIb trial evaluating Viekira Pak (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir tablets, dasabuvir tablets) in a diverse patient population with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Results from the multicenter trial in the USA showed that 95% of patients in the TOPAZ-II study achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR) post-treatment. The data was presented this week at the Liver Meeting, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco.

The trial examined the impact of SVR on the progression of liver diseases over the course of five years in a diverse patient population, including genotype 1a and 1b (GT1a and GT1b) HCV patients with or without cirrhosis and those who were treatment-naïve or pegylated interferon (pegIFN) /ribavirin (RBV) treatment-experienced.

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