A Randomized, Controlled Study of Intravenous Ganciclovir Therapy for Peripheral Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Patients With AIDS
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Brief summary
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To provide information about the usefulness and safety of giving injections of ganciclovir (DHPG) for treating peripheral cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis. CMV retinitis is an important sight-threatening opportunistic infection which affects 1 to 2 out of every 10 patients with AIDS. Results from an earlier study suggest that about 80 percent of patients with CMV retinitis will be helped by receiving intravenous doses of DHPG.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00000688
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 180 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 13 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Not listed
- Primary completion
- Feb 1995 (Actual)
- Completion
- Not listed
- Last update posted
- Mar 14, 2011
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 22
- U.S. states
- 12
- U.S. cities
- 17
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univ of California / San Diego Treatment Ctr | San Diego | California | 921036325 | — |
| Mount Zion Med Ctr | San Francisco | California | 94115 | — |
| Stanford at Kaiser / Kaiser Permanente Med Ctr | San Francisco | California | 94115 | — |
| Pacific Presbyterian | San Francisco | California | 94118 | — |
| Mills Hosp | San Mateo | California | 94401 | — |
| Stanford Univ School of Medicine | Stanford | California | 94305 | — |
| George Washington Univ Med Ctr | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20037 | — |
| Northwestern Univ Med School | Chicago | Illinois | 60611 | — |
| Rush Presbyterian - Saint Luke's Med Ctr | Chicago | Illinois | 60612 | — |
| Indiana Univ Hosp | Indianapolis | Indiana | 462025250 | — |
| Henry Ford Hosp | Detroit | Michigan | 48202 | — |
| Univ of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55455 | — |
| Kansas City Veterans Administration Med Ctr | Kansas City | Missouri | 64128 | — |
| Washington Univ Med Ctr | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
| Univ of New Mexico Hlth Sciences Ctr / Dept of Med | Albuquerque | New Mexico | 87131 | — |
| New York Univ Med Ctr / Dept of Environmental Med | New York | New York | 10016 | — |
| Cornell Univ Med Ctr | New York | New York | 10021 | — |
| Holmes Hosp / Univ of Cincinnati Med Ctr | Cincinnati | Ohio | 452670405 | — |
| Univ TX Galveston Med Branch | Galveston | Texas | 77550 | — |
| Plaza Med Ctr | Houston | Texas | 77004 | — |
| Infectious Diseases Association of Houston / Methodist Hosp | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Infectious Disease Physicians Inc | Annandale | Virginia | 22203 | — |
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- Last update posted Mar 14, 2011 · Synced Oct 26, 2026
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