Persistent Lyme Empiric Antibiotic Study Europe. A Prospective, Randomised Study Comparing Two Prolonged Oral Antibiotic Strategies After Initial Intravenous Ceftriaxone Therapy for Patients With Symptoms of Proven or Possible Persistent Lyme Disease
试验速览
- 阶段
- 4 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 280
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Global score 36-item Short-form General Health Survey (SF 36)
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of the study is to establish whether prolonged antibiotic treatment of patients diagnosed with proven or presumed PLD (as endorsed by the international ILADS guidelines) leads to better patient outcome than short-term treatment as endorsed by the Dutch CBO guidelines.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —(Adult, Older Adult)
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Males or non-pregnant, non-lactating females who are 18 years or older.
- •Women of child-bearing potential must agree to use contraception methods other than oral contraceptives during the study therapy period, since failure of oral contraceptives due to long-term antibiotic use has been described and doxycycline might be teratogenic.
- •Patients with presumed or proven PLD. In this study, clinical suspicion of PLD is defined as complaints of musculoskeletal pain, arthritis or arthralgia, neuralgia or sensory disturbances (such as paresthesias or dysesthesias), neuropsychological or cognitive disorders, and persistent fatigue, that are:
- •temporally related to an episode of erythema migrans or otherwise proven symptomatic Lyme disease (defined as within 4 months after erythema migrans as assessed by a physician, or positive biopsy, PCR, culture, intrathecal B. burgdorferi antibodies), OR
- •accompanied by a positive B. burgdorferi IgG or IgM immunoblot (as defined by strict criteria in line with the European Union Concerted Action on Lyme Borreliosis (EUCALB)), regardless of prior ELISA IgG/IgM screening results.
- •Subjects must sign a written informed consent form.
排除标准
- •Subjects with a known history of allergy or intolerance to tetracyclines, macrolides, hydroxychloroquine or ceftriaxone.
- •Subjects who have had more than 5 days of antimicrobial therapy with activity against B. burgdorferi within the previous 4 weeks.
- •Subjects with a presumed diagnosis of neuroborreliosis (CSF pleocytosis or intrathecal antibody production) for which intravenous antimicrobial therapy is required.
- •Subjects with a known diagnosis of HIV-seropositivity or other immune disorders. (No HIV serologic testing is required for the study).
- •Subjects with positive syphilis serology or signs of other spirochetal diseases.
- •Subjects with moderate or severe liver disease defined as alkaline phosphatase, ALAT, or ASAT greater than 3 times upper limit of normal.
- •Subjects who are receiving and cannot discontinue cisapride, astemizole, terfenadine, barbiturates, phenytoin, or carbamazepine (The concentrations of these drugs may increase during clarithromycin therapy and/or lead to reduced availability of doxycycline).
- •Subjects who are currently enrolled on other investigational drug trials or receiving investigational agents.
- •Subjects who have been previously randomized into this study.
- •Severe physical or psychiatric co-morbidity that interferes with participation in the study protocol, including previous medical diagnosis of rheumatic conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome or chronic pain conditions as well as insufficient command of the Dutch language.
- •Co-morbidity that could (partially) account for the symptoms of the subject (e.g. vitamin B12 deficiency, anemia, hypothyroidism).
研究组 & 干预措施
Doxycycline
干预措施: Doxycycline (Drug)
Clarithromycin and hydroxychloroquine
干预措施: Clarithromycin and hydroxychloroquine (Drug)
Placebo
干预措施: Placebo (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Global score 36-item Short-form General Health Survey (SF 36)
时间窗: Week 14
Because different operationalizations of the term 'Global score 36-item Short-form General Health Survey (SF 36)' exist, the primary outcome measure is specified here as the 'physical component summary score' (PCS) of the RAND-36 Health Status Inventory (RAND SF-36, Hays 1998), which is similar to the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 36-item Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36). The PCS is also known as the physical health composite score (PHC). This specification has been communicated to the local Ethics Committee on March 1, 2011, and was approved on April 6, 2011.
次要结局
- Subscales 36-item Short-form General Health Survey (SF 36)(weeks 0, 14, 26, 40 and 52)
- Fatigue subscale of Checklist Individual Strength (CIS)(weeks 0, 14, 26, 40 and 52)
- Actometer recording during 14 days (objective physical activity)(weeks 0, 14 and 40)
- Economic evaluation: Questionaire EQ-5D, health consumption and productivity of labour(weeks 0, 14, 26, 40 and 52)
- Measurements of neuropsychological impairment(weeks 0, 14, 26 and 40)
