Treatment with amprenavir alone or amprenavir with zidovudine and lamivudine in adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Citation
Rl. Murphy et al., Treatment with amprenavir alone or amprenavir with zidovudine and lamivudine in adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection, J INFEC DIS, 179(4), 1999, pp. 808-816
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Immunology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
00221899 → ACNP
Volume
179
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
808 - 816
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1899(199904)179:4<808:TWAAOA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Amprenavir is a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease inhibitor with a favorable; pharmacokinetic profile and good in vitro activity. Ninety-two lamivudine- and protease inhibitor-naive individuals with greater than or equal to 50 CD4 cells/mm(3) and greater than or equal to 5000 HN RNA copies /mL were assigned amprenavir (1200 mg) alone or with zidovudine (300 mg) pl us lamivudine (150 mg), all given every 12 h. After a median follow-up of s s days, the findings of a planned interim review resulted in termination of the amprenavir monotherapy arm. Among 85 subjects with confirmed plasma HI V RNA determination, 15 pf 42 monotherapy versus 1 of 43 triple-therapy sub jects had an HIV RNA increase above basline or 1 log(10) above nadir (P=.00 01). For subjects taking triple therapy at 24 weeks, the median decrease in HIV RNA was 2.04 log(10) copies/mL, and 17 (63%) of 27 evaluable subjects had <500 HIV RNA copies/mL;. Treatment: with amprenavir, zidovudine, and la mivudine together reduced he levels of HIV RNA significantly more than did amprenavir monotherapy.