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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN41611080
Date of registration: 19/01/2006
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Sponsor not yet defined (Spain)
Public title: Evaluation of two Trizivir-based strategies of induction-maintenance in antiretroviral-naive HIV-infected patients
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: 15/04/2003
Target sample size: 220
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN41611080
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Treatment)  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Spain
Contacts
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Affiliation: 
Name: Jose    Gatell
Address:  Infectious Diseases and HIV Unit Hospital Clinic Villarroel 170 08036 Barcelona Spain
Telephone: +34 (0)932275430
Email: gatell@medicina.ub.es
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Male and female
2. HIV-1 infection
3. Age 18 or above
4. Antiretroviral-naive
5. Plasma viral load above 10,000 copies/ml
6. Life expectancy >72 weeks
7. Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy, breastfeeding or intention to become pregnant during the study planned duration
2. Current opportunistic infection requiring parenteral therapy
3. Any formal contraindication to receive the study drugs
4. Current treatment with investigational drugs


Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
Infections and Infestations
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Intervention(s)
Patients are randomly assigned to receive either:

1. Retrovir (AZT) + Lamivudine (3TC) + Trizivir (ABC) + Efavirenz (Sustiva), or
2. AZT + 3TC + ABC + Lopinavir/Ritonavir (Kaletra)

After 24 weeks, patients in both arms showing undetectable viral load will receive Trizivir for 48 more weeks.
Primary Outcome(s)
Proportion of patients with viral load below 20 copies/ml (polymerase chain reaction [PCR] estandar, Amplicor Monitor Roche Ultrasensible) at 72 weeks.
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Proportion of patients with CD4+ cell count above 200 c/ml at 72 weeks
2. Proportion of patients with viral load <20 copies/ml at 24 weeks
3. Time to treatment failure
4. Duration of response
5. Incidence of adverse events (clinical and laboratory) leading to discontinuation of the study drugs
6. Incidence of C events (CDC 1993)
7. Death for any cause
Secondary ID(s)
TRIZEFAL
Source(s) of Monetary Support
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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