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Letermovir Versus Valganciclovir to Prevent Human Cytomegalovirus Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients (MK-8228-002)

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03443869

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Official title

A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Active Comparator-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of MK-8228 (Letermovir) Versus Valganciclovir for the Prevention of Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03443869
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Industry
Enrollment
601 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

  • Acyclovir (ACV) Drug
  • Letermovir Drug
  • Placebo to ACV Drug
  • Placebo to LET Drug
  • Placebo to VGCV Drug
  • Valganciclovir Drug

Drug

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
May 2, 2018
Primary completion
Apr 4, 2022
Completion
Apr 4, 2022
Last update posted
Jul 27, 2023

2018 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
27
U.S. states
19
U.S. cities
24
Facility City State ZIP Site status
UAB ( Site 0269) Birmingham Alabama 35233
UCLA Medical Center ( Site 0266) Los Angeles California 90095
UC Davis Medical Center ( Site 0271) Sacramento California 95817
University of California-San Francisco ( Site 0236) San Francisco California 94143
Stanford Health Care ( Site 0235) Stanford California 94305
The Emory Clinic ( Site 0247) Atlanta Georgia 30322
University of Chicago ( Site 0251) Chicago Illinois 60637
Indiana University ( Site 0261) Indianapolis Indiana 46202
Ochsner Clinic Foundation ( Site 0238) New Orleans Louisiana 70121
University of Maryland Medical Center ( Site 0234) Baltimore Maryland 21201
Johns Hopkins Hospital ( Site 0232) Baltimore Maryland 21287
Brigham & Women's Hospital ( Site 0244) Boston Massachusetts 02115
Henry Ford Hospital ( Site 0242) Detroit Michigan 48202
University of Nebraska Medical Center ( Site 0272) Omaha Nebraska 68198
Saint Barnabas Medical Center ( Site 0250) Livingston New Jersey 07039
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( Site 0256) New York New York 10029
Columbia University Medical Center ( Site 0255) New York New York 10032
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center ( Site 0276) New York New York 10065
Duke University Medical Center ( Site 0243) Durham North Carolina 27710
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ( Site 0260) Winston-Salem North Carolina 27157
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ( Site 0264) Columbus Ohio 43210
University of Pennsylvania ( Site 0270) Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104
University of Pittsburgh ( Site 0252) Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213
Medical University of South Carolina ( Site 0257) Charleston South Carolina 29425
Vanderbilt University Medical Center ( Site 0275) Nashville Tennessee 37232
Virginia Commonwealth University ( Site 0245) Richmond Virginia 23298
University of Washington Medical Center ( Site 0246) Seattle Washington 98195

Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.

Non-U.S. locations

This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 67 non-U.S. sites.

About this trial record page

What this page shows
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What this page does not do
No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
Where the data comes from
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