Observational Study With Antiretroviral Treated Patients Switching to Nevirapine Plus Two Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NRTI) Regimens
- Registration Number
- NCT02191319
- Lead Sponsor
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Brief Summary
- Collecting data on maintaining anti-retroviral activity (quantitative HIV RNA determination) and immunological activity (CD4 cells) after switching from protease inhibitor or NNRTI to Nevirapine (Viramune®) and collecting of routinely observed laboratory data on lipids, and liver enzymes. 
- Detailed Description
- Not available 
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 55
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients suffer from HIV type 1 infection
- Patient is treated with antiretroviral protease-inhibitors or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
- Patient has shown a depression of viral load before limit of detection (< 50 HIV-RNA copies/ml) for more than 6 months prior to visit 1
- Patient is male or female with age greater than or equal to 18 years
- Women have to be willing to use an effective barrier method of contraception for the duration of the observational study participation
Exclusion Criteria
- Patient has clinically relevant laboratory findings (e.g., aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > five times upper limit of normal (ULN))
- Patients is hypersensitive to Viramune® or to any of its excipients
- Patient is not able to abstain from treatment with ketoconazole, oral contraceptives, or other drug affecting CYP3A-metabolism
- Patients is breast-feeding
- Patient is pregnant
- Patient is a woman and does not use effective contraception
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
- Group - Intervention - Description - Viramune® - Viramune® - Patients switching from protease inhibitor (PI) or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) containing antiretroviral regimen to Viramune® 
- Primary Outcome Measures
- Name - Time - Method - Change in CD4 cell count - Baseline, up to 52 weeks - Change in viral load (HIV-RNA) - Baseline, up to 52 weeks - Change in lipid parameters - Baseline, up to 52 weeks - mg/dl - Change in glucose - Baseline, up to 52 weeks - mg/dl 
- Secondary Outcome Measures
- Name - Time - Method - Change in liver enzyme parameter - Baseline, up to 52 weeks - U/l - Assessment of subjective well-being - up to 52 weeks - verbal rating scale - Assessment of tolerability by physician and patients - after 52 weeks - verbal rating scale - Number of patients with adverse events - up to 52 weeks 
