Comparative Pharmacology
Head-to-head clinical analysis: DENDRID versus HARVONI.
Peer-Reviewed Evidence
Head-to-head clinical analysis: DENDRID versus HARVONI.
DENDRID vs HARVONI
Comparing the clinical profiles, pharmacokinetic behaviors, and safety indices of these two therapeutic agents.
Dendrid (idoxuridine) is a pyrimidine nucleoside analog that inhibits viral DNA replication by incorporating into viral DNA and inhibiting thymidylate synthetase, thereby blocking DNA synthesis.
Fixed-dose combination of ledipasvir, an HCV NS5A inhibitor, and sofosbuvir, an HCV NS5B nucleotide polymerase inhibitor. Ledipasvir inhibits HCV NS5A protein essential for viral replication and assembly; sofosbuvir is a prodrug that after intracellular metabolism acts as a chain terminator by inhibiting NS5B RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
1.5 mg/kg IV every 8 hours; typical adult dose 100 mg IV every 8 hours.
One tablet (90 mg ledipasvir/400 mg sofosbuvir) orally once daily with or without food for 12 weeks. For treatment-naïve patients with genotype 1 and cirrhosis, 24 weeks may be considered. For genotype 4, 12 weeks recommended.
None Documented
None Documented
Terminal elimination half-life is approximately 3-4 hours in adults with normal renal function; prolonged in renal impairment
Ledipasvir: 47 hours; Sofosbuvir: 0.5 hours; GS-331007 (predominant circulating metabolite): 27 hours; clinical context: supports once-daily dosing with no accumulation beyond steady state by day 7
Primarily renal excretion; unchanged drug accounts for 70-90% of elimination; minor biliary/fecal excretion (<10%)
Ledipasvir: 86% fecal, 1% renal; Sofosbuvir: 80% renal (as inactive metabolite GS-331007), 14% fecal; GS-331007: 78% renal
Category C
Category C
Antiviral
Antiviral