Foscarnet Treatment of Serious CMV Retinitis Infection in Patients With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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To explore the safety and usefulness of foscarnet, an antiviral agent, in the treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis. Untreated CMV retinitis is a rapidly progressive, blinding disease in AIDS patients. The manner in which foscarnet breaks down in the body and the effect of increasing periodic intravenous doses are also studied. Foscarnet is active in vitro (test tube) against herpes viruses, including CMV, by inhibiting the virus DNA polymerases, enzymes necessary for virus replication, without affecting cellular DNA polymerases. Opportunistic CMV disease in AIDS is usually seen as retinitis, colitis, esophagitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, encephalitis, or pneumonia. Ganciclovir has been used to treat AIDS patients with CMV disease but can cause severe neutropenia (very low neutrophil cell counts). Foscarnet does not suppress the production of neutrophils or other leukocytes (myelosuppression) and has shown in vitro activity against HIV.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00000726
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 53 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 13 Years to 65 Years
- 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
- Not listed
- Completion
- Jan 31, 1992
- Last update posted
- Nov 2, 2021
Ends 1992
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County - USC Med Ctr | Los Angeles | California | 90033 | — |
| USC School of Medicine / Norris Cancer Hosp | Los Angeles | California | 90033 | — |
| UCLA CARE Ctr | Los Angeles | California | 90095 | — |
| San Francisco AIDS Clinic / San Francisco Gen Hosp | San Francisco | California | 941102859 | — |
| Mem Sloan - Kettering Cancer Ctr | New York | New York | 10021 | — |
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