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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00488306
Date of registration: 18/06/2007
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer
Public title: Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Tigecycline in Hospitalized Patients With cIAI
Scientific title: A Multicenter, Open Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Tigecycline to Treat Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections (cIAI) in Hospitalized Patients
Date of first enrolment: August 2006
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00488306
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Taiwan
Contacts
Name:     Medical Monitor
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Affiliation:  Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer
Name:     Trial Manager
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Affiliation:  For Taiwan, medinfo@wyeth.com
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Hospitalized male or female patients greater than or equal to 18 years of age.

- Patients must be a candidate for or have had a laparotomy, or laparoscopy of an
intra-abdominal abscess.

- Patients with a complicated intra-abdominal infection such as:

- an intra-abdominal abscess;

- an intra-abdominal abscess (including liver and spleen) that develops in a
post-operative patient after receiving > 48 hours and less than or equal to 5
days of a non-study antibiotic. An intra-abdominal culture must be obtained from
the infected site.

- appendicitis complicated by perforation (grossly visible) and abscess and/or
periappendiceal abscess;

- perforated diverticulitis complicated by abscess formation or fecal
contamination;

- complicated cholecystitis with evidence of perforation or empyema;

- perforation of the large or small intestine with abscess, or fecal
contamination;

- purulent peritonitis or peritonitis associated with fecal contamination;

- gastric or duodenal ulcer perforation with symptoms lasting at least 24 hours
prior to operation;

- traumatic bowel perforation with symptoms lasting at least 12 hours prior to
operation.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with any concomitant condition that, in the opinion of the investigator,
would preclude an evaluation of a response or make it unlikely that the contemplated
course of therapy or follow-up visits could be completed.

- Active or treated leukemia or systemic malignancy that required treatment with
chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy or antineoplastic therapy within the
past 3 months, or any metastatic malignancy to the abdomen with life expectancy less
than 6 months.

- Anticipated length of antibiotic therapy less than 5 days.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Abdominal Abscess
Intervention(s)
Drug: tigecycline
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary efficacy endpoint will be clinical response within the clinically evaluable population at the test-of-cure assessment.
Secondary Outcome(s)
microbiological response (eradicated, persistence, superinfection, or indeterminate) at the patient level, microbiological response (eradicated, persistence, or indeterminate) at the pathogen level (overall and resistant pathogens) clinical
Secondary ID(s)
3074A1-101994
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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