Proteflazid®: clinical and economic substantiation for use in therapy of herpes infection

Abstract

Epidemiological data indicate the widespread dissemination and constant dynamics of the incidence rate of herpesvirus infections due to a variety of forms and transmission paths of the virus, highly contagious and life-long persistence of the herpes virus in the body of the infected persons and the lack of effectiveness of existing treatments. Acyclic guanosine derivatives are the main group of antiviral drugs traditionally used for the causal treatment of herpes infections. They have a number of disadvantages, in particular formation of the virus resistance in a long-term use, the need to involve immunotherapy, as well as the high cost of treatment. The accumulated clinical experience with the original Ukrainian drug Proteflazid® (drops) in treating viral infections, including HHV- infections, shows its high clinical efficacy and safety. A relative estimation of the course treatment costs of herpes-induced infections using antiviral drugs has demonstrated the economic expediency of Proteflazid® with the purpose of treatment and maintenance therapy. Proteflazid® takes the medium sized niche among other antiherpetic drugs. In addition, due to the multi-vector nature of its pharmacodynamic effects (direct antiviral, immunomodulating, interferon-stimulating, antioxidant, apoptosis-modulating, etc.) Proteflazid® allows to exclude antioxidants, immunomodulators from the antiherpetic therapy scheme, or to adjust their use, and it can significantly reduce the cost per a course of treatment.