Valganciclovir in Patients With CMV Retinitis and AIDS Who Cannot Take Drugs by Injection
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Official title
Open-Label Safety Study of Valganciclovir in Patients With CMV Retinitis and AIDS Who Have Complications Due to IV Treatment
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to make valganciclovir available, before it is approved for marketing, to HIV-infected patients who have cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis (eye infection) and cannot take drugs by injection. This study also will look at the safety of using valganciclovir as starting and/or ongoing therapy. CMV can cause serious AIDS-related infections in patients with HIV. Drugs that are effective against CMV eye infections can be given only by injection; this calls for a thin tube to be placed into a vein in the chest so that the patient is not put through getting too many needle sticks. An experimental drug, valganciclovir, is similar to 1 of these approved drugs, ganciclovir, but is more convenient and easier to use since it can be taken by mouth. Once in the body, valganciclovir changes to ganciclovir. Studies have shown that valganciclovir tablets can result in the same level of ganciclovir in the blood as ganciclovir injection.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00017784
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 500 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 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
- Not listed
- Completion
- Not listed
- Last update posted
- Jun 23, 2005
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 8
- U.S. states
- 5
- U.S. cities
- 8
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retina - Vitreous Associates Med Group | Beverly Hills | California | 90211 | — |
| Wilbert Jordan | Paramount | California | 90723 | — |
| Quest Clinical Research | San Francisco | California | 94115 | — |
| Santa Clara Valley Med Ctr | San Jose | California | 95128 | — |
| IDC Research Initiative | Altamonte Springs | Florida | 32701 | — |
| Ingenix Kern McNeill Decatur | Atlanta | Georgia | 30309 | — |
| Nashville Health Management Foundation / Vanderbilt Univ | Nashville | Tennessee | 37203 | — |
| North Texas Infectious Disease Consultants | Dallas | Texas | 75246 | — |
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Non-U.S. locations
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- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00017784, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Jun 23, 2005 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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