Emergency Use of Voriconazole in Patients With Life-Threatening Invasive Fungal Infections
Information source: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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Condition(s) targeted: Mycoses
Intervention: Voriconazole (Drug)
Phase: Phase 3
Status: Completed
Sponsored by: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Summary
This protocol provides for emergency treatment with the experimental anti-fungal drug
voriconazole for patients with life-threatening invasive fungal infections. The increase in
the number of patients whose immune function is suppressed because of chemotherapy, tissue
or organ transplantation, or HIV infection has led to an increase in fungal infections. New
drugs are needed to combat these infections in patients who do not respond to or cannot
tolerate standard treatments.
Patients on other primary NIH protocols who have an invasive life-threatening fungal
infection that does not respond to currently available treatments or who cannot tolerate
these treatments may be eligible for this study.
Participants will have a blood test and a physical examination before receiving
voriconazole. They will receive voriconazole twice a day either as an infusion into a vein
or as tablets taken by mouth. Adult patients will be asked to provide a blood sample any
time after the first dose of voriconazole to be used for developing a test to measure
voriconazole concentration in the blood. Patients will be evaluated about 10 days after
starting treatment and then at least once every 4 weeks with a symptom check and blood test.
Clinical Details
Official title: Open-Label, Non-Comparative Protocol for the Emergency Use of Voriconazole in Patients With Life Threatening, Invasive Mycoses Who Are Failing on Currently Available Antifungal Agents
Study design: Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Primary Purpose: Treatment
Detailed description:
The increase in the number of immunosuppressed patients as a result of more aggressive
chemotherapy, transplantation, HIV infection has lead to an increase in the incidence of
invasive fungal infections. Moreover, despite the availability of newer, less toxic
preparations of Amphotericin B and azole antifungals such as fluconazole and itraconazole,
invasive mycoses remain a therapeutic challenge.
Voriconazole is a new triazole that has shown in phase II studies to be very active against
Aspergillus sp. Its side effect profile has been very benign, comparable with those of
other FDA approved triazoles. In vitro studies also show that voriconazole has a very broad
spectrum ranging from opportunistic to endemic fungi. In addition, the availability of
intravenous and oral formulations add to its potential advantages because the therapy of
these infections usually require long courses on antifungals.
In this study, voriconazole is used as a salvage therapy for those patients who are unable
to tolerate or who have failed other antifungal therapies. Because of the abundance of
immunocompromised patients at our center, we believe that having such a protocol ready for
enrollment would mitigate delays in such crucial moments. We seek to enroll and treat 40
patients over a 3 year period.
Eligibility
Minimum age: N/A.
Maximum age: N/A.
Gender(s): Both.
Criteria:
INCLUSION CRITERIA:
All subjects must have a proven fungal infection that is resistant to standard therapy,
or to which the patient is significantly intolerant. (Intolerance must include signs of
intolerance such as fever, rigors, laboratory abnormalities, as well as subjective
symptoms).
Children are eligible.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
AST, ALT greater than 10x the upper limit of normal
Previous hypersensitivity to azole antifungals
Concomitant Rifampin, carbamazepine, or barbiturates or greater than 3 days of such drugs
in the 14 days prior to treatment with voriconazole
Locations and Contacts
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
Additional Information
Starting date: April 2001
Last updated: March 3, 2008
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