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NCT Number: NCT00849160

Study of Protease Inhibitor Regimen Switch in HIV-1 Infected Patients With Undetectable Viral Load to Prove the Non-inferiority of Once Daily Dose Regimen Versus the Current Twice Daily Regimen to Maintain the Viral Load Under the Limit of Detection.

Darunavir boosted with ritonavir (darunavir/r) is a powerful protease inhibitor, able to reduce the viral load in patients infected with multi-resistant HIV strains; In vitro and in vivo studies have shown that the induction of resistance mutations in the protease gene is much more difficult with the association darunavir/r compared to the other ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors (PI/r), testifying of a significantly higher genetic barrier to resistance. Moreover, the tolerance to darunavir is good, and the pharmacologic profile of this molecule allows a once daily administration with a 800/100 mg dose in patients infected with a wild HIV strain or with a slightly resistant to darunavir/r strain.

Thus, we propose to evaluate the efficacy of the darunavir/r association once daily as a substitute to a protease inhibitor regimen administered twice daily in patients with undetectable viral load receiving a tritherapy including a protease inhibitor administered twice daily.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bicêtre - Service de Médecine Interne et Maladies Tropicales, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • HIV-1 infected patients
  • Treatment with an association of 3 molecules including two Nucleotidic Reverse Trasncriptase Inhibitors and a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor BID, unchanged for at least one month
  • At least two documented undetectable viral loads (under 50 copies/ml) within the last 3 months
  • Naiive from darunavir
  • Free from any opportunistic infection
  • Creatinin < 3N
  • ASAT & ALAT < 5N
  • Haemoglobin > 7 g/dl
  • Platelets > 50 000/mm3
  • Negative pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential and use of a mechanic contraceptive during sexual relationships
  • Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • HIV-2 infected patients
  • Treatment different from the association described in the inclusion criteria (2 NRTIs + 1 PI/r BID)
  • Patients with a documented problem of treatment compliance within the last 12 months
  • Ongoing active treatment against any opportunistic infection or tuberculosis
  • Any critic concomitant condition (alcohol consumption, fatigue) that may jeopardize treatment compliance and/olr tolerance, and interfere with the protocol compliance
  • Any concomitant treatment that may potentialize or inhibit hepatic cyotchrome-based enzymes
  • Patient already treated with darunavir
  • Patient treated with tipranavir, enfuvirtide, raltegravir, etravirine, and/or maraviroc

Treatment and study plan

Darunavir

Drug

darunavir/r 800/100 mg once daily by oral route, 48 weeks of treatment

Primary outcomes

  1. Undetectable viral load ( < 50 copies/ml)

    Time frame: Week 24

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients with undetectable viral load under 50 copies/ml

    Time frame: All visits

  2. Proportion of patients in the situation of virologic failure defined as a viral load higher than 50 copies/ml confirmed with a second examen at least two weeks later.

    Time frame: All visits

  3. CD4 lymphocytes count and evolution

    Time frame: All visits

  4. Lipids balance evolution

    Time frame: All visits

  5. Treatment tolerance

    Time frame: All visits

  6. Measure of the darunavir/r concentrations variability and correlation with the potential adverse events and/or virologic failures.

    Time frame: All visits

  7. Spermatic viral load (sub-study concerning 15 patients)

    Time frame: Day 0 and Week 48

  8. Pharmacologic sub-studies

    Time frame: All visits

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Centre de Recherches et d'Etude sur la Pathologie Tropicale et le Sida

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Registry information

Official study title

Non-comparative, Opened Study, Evaluating in HIV-1 Infected Patients With Undetectable Viral Load, Treated by an Antiretroviral Combination Including a Protease Inhibitor Boosted With Ritonavir and Administered by Oral Route Twice a Day, the Substitutability of the Current Protease Inhibitor Regimen by the Association Darunavir/Ritonavir 800/100 mg Once a Day to Maintain the Viral Load Under the 50 Copies/ml Limit of Detection After 24 Weeks of Treatment.

Acronym: RADAR

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Feb 23, 2009
Registry last updated
Jan 22, 2014

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