Efficacy and Safety of Clevudine Compared With Adefovir in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis Due to Hepatitis B Virus
- Conditions
- Chronic HepatitisHepatitis B
- Registration Number
- NCT00496158
- Lead Sponsor
- Pharmasset
- Brief Summary
The objectives of this study are to compare in nucleoside treatment-naïve subjects, the efficacy and safety of clevudine 30 mg once daily versus adefovir 10 mg once daily, each as monotherapy, for 48 weeks, 72 weeks, and 96 weeks.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
- Nucleoside treatment-naïve subjects of either gender, females who are non-pregnant and non-lactating, aged 16 years or older (or the legal age of consent as allowed by local regulations), with compensated hepatic function despite a diagnosis of chronic HBeAg negative hepatitis B infection (i.e., based on serological, virological and histological markers) will be eligible for this study.
- Subjects entering the study with an historical biopsy will have chronic hepatic inflammatory injury at screening (Knodell HAI score ≥ 4 and modified Ishak fibrosis score ≤ 5).
- The number of subjects entering the study with an Ishak fibrosis score of 5 will be limited to approximately 10%. If applicable, subjects must cease previous treatment with any form of alpha interferon 12 months prior to baseline.
- For eligibility, subjects must meet the laboratory criteria for total bilirubin, prothrombin time, serum albumin, platelet count, absolute neutrophil count, ANA titer and have a creatinine clearance of ≥ 50 mL/min.
- Subjects participating in a clinical trial or receiving an investigational agent for any reason within 60 days of baseline will be excluded.
- Subjects with clinically significant concomitant diseases will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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Trial Locations
- Locations (88)
University of Alabama Birmingham
🇺🇸Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Advanced Clinical Research Institution
🇺🇸Anaheim, California, United States
West Gastroenterology Medical Group
🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States
Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, Inc.
🇺🇸San Diego, California, United States
Medical Associates Research Group
🇺🇸San Diego, California, United States
California Pacific Medical Center
🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States
Quest Clinical Research
🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States
Ucsf/Sfgh
🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States
San Mateo Medical Center
🇺🇸San Mateo, California, United States
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