Telbivudine

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|Warning|H302 (100%): Harmful if swallowed [Warning Acute toxicity, oral]|P264, P270, P301+P312, P330, and P501|Aggregated GHS information provided by 39 companies from 2 notifications to the ECHA C&L Inventory.

There is no information on intentional overdose of telbivudine, but one subject experienced an unintentional and asymptomatic overdose. Healthy subjects who received telbivudine doses up to 1800 mg/day for 4 days had no increase in or unexpected adverse events. A maximum tolerated dose for telbivudine has not been determined.

Telbivudine shares many features with the other L-nucleosides (lamivudine, emtricitabine) and has been linked to transient flares of hepatitis B during and after treatment of chronic hepatitis B. Serum ALT elevations above 3 times normal occurred in 5% to 10% of patients on telbivudine, which was comparable to other nucleoside analogues. Three types of flares can arise with nucleoside analogue therapy: transient and usually asymptomatic flares around the time of initiation of therapy (treatment flares), exacerbations of disease after development of antiviral resistance to telbivudine (breakthrough flares) and after stopping treatment (withdrawal flares). Cases of exacerbation of hepatitis B after development of antiviral resistance or upon telbivudine withdrawal can be severe and some cases have qualified as acute liver failure. No instances of lactic acidosis with hepatic steatosis have been reported with telbivudine therapy of hepatitis B, but isolated cases of suspected mitochondrial injury with myopathy have been reported. In trials of telbivudine therapy in pregnant women with HBsAg and HBeAg in serum and high levels of HBV DNA, therapy appeared to lessen if not eliminate maternal infant transmission, but withdrawal flares of hepatitis B occurred in some women with active disease and ALT elevations before therapy. In women with “immune tolerant” hepatitis B with high levels of HBV DNA without serum aminotransferase elevations, withdrawal flares are uncommon and levels of HBV DNA rise to previous levels on stopping therapy but without a concurrent flare of disease.

In vitro binding of telbivudine to human plasma proteins is low (3.3%).

For the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in adult and adolescent patients ≥16 years of age with evidence of viral replication and either evidence of persistent elevations in serum aminotransferases (ALT or AST) or histologically active disease.|Sebivo is indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in adult patients with compensated liver disease and evidence of viral replication, persistently elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels and histological evidence of active inflammation and/or fibrosis.Initiation of Sebivo treatment should only be considered when the use of an alternative antiviral agent with a higher genetic barrier to resistance is not available or appropriate.|Treatment of chronic hepatitis B

Telbivudine is a nucleoside analogue and antiviral inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication which is used alone and in combination with other agents in the therapy of the hepatitis B. Telbivudine does not appear to be a significant cause of drug induced liver injury, but can be associated with flares of the underlying hepatitis B either during therapy or upon withdrawal.

Antiviral Agents

Telbivudine is a synthetic thymidine nucleoside analogue with activity against hepatitis B virus (HBV). Telbivudine is the unmodified β–L enantiomer of the naturally occurring nucleoside, thymidine. It undergoes phosphorylation via interaction with cellular kinases to form the active metabolite, telbivudine 5'-triphosphate.

Agents used in the prophylaxis or therapy of VIRUS DISEASES. Some of the ways they may act include preventing viral replication by inhibiting viral DNA polymerase; binding to specific cell-surface receptors and inhibiting viral penetration or uncoating; inhibiting viral protein synthesis; or blocking late stages of virus assembly. (See all compounds classified as Antiviral Agents.)|Compounds that inhibit cell production of DNA or RNA. (See all compounds classified as Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors.)

Absorbed following oral administration. Telbivudine absorption and exposure were unaffected when a single 600–mg dose was administered with a high–fat (~55 g), high–calorie (~950 kcal) meal.|Telbivudine is eliminated primarily by urinary excretion of unchanged drug.|7.6 +/- 2.9 L/h [Normal renal function (Clcr>80 mL/min)]

No metabolites of telbivudine were detected following administration of [14C]–telbivudine in humans. Telbivudine is not a substrate, or inhibitor of the cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzyme system.

Approximately 15 hours.

Telbivudine 5'–triphosphate inhibits HBV DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase) by competing with the natural substrate, thymidine 5'–triphosphate. This leads to the chain termination of DNA synthesis, thereby inhibiting viral replication. Incorporation of telbivudine 5'–triphosphate into viral DNA also causes DNA chain termination, resulting in inhibition of HBV replication. Telbivudine inhibits anticompliment or second-strand DNA.

1-(2-deoxy-beta-L-erythropentafuranosyl)-5-methyl-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione

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