Overview

Studies of the Ocular Complications of AIDS (SOCA)--Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Retreatment Trial (CRRT)

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
1995-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
To compare the relative merits of three therapeutic regimens in patients with AIDS and CMV retinitis who have been previously treated but whose retinitis either is nonresponsive or has relapsed. These three therapeutic regimens were (1) foscarnet, (2) high-dose ganciclovir, and (3) combination foscarnet and ganciclovir. To compare two treatment strategies in patients with relapsed or nonresponsive CMV retinitis: (1) continuing the same anti-CMV drug or (2) switching to the alternate drug.
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Collaborators:
Baylor College of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
National Eye Institute (NEI)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York University
Northwestern University
Tulane University School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
University of Miami
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Treatments:
Foscarnet
Ganciclovir
Ganciclovir triphosphate
Phosphonoacetic Acid