This trial is aimed at studying the antiviral activity, toxicity and pharmacokinetic (PK) interactions of tenofovir DF and atazanavir enhanced with low dose of ritonavir given alone and then concomitantly as part of a salvage regimen to HIV patients with multiple failure, under conditions allowing to tease out the specific role of atazanavir combined with low dose of ritonavir.
When licensed, new drugs are widely used in patients failing antiretroviral therapy, including patients with multiple failures. In such patients, having multi-resistant virus, the introduction of one new drug only in the salvage regimen will infrequently result in undetectable virus load in the plasma. Tenofovir DF and atazanavir appear promising because of their pharmacokinetic profile, activity, safety and resistance properties. In addition, pharmacokinetic data in healthy volunteers suggest that atazanavir could be optimized by adding ritonavir at low dose. Thus, one may speculate that atazanavir pharmacokinetic and antiviral activity could be optimized by adding ritonavir at low dose in patients exhibiting high rate of protease inhibitor mutations. This protocol is aimed at studying the antiviral activity, toxicity and PK interactions, of tenofovir DF and atazanavir enhanced with low dose of ritonavir given alone and then concomitantly as part of a salvage regimen to patients with multiple failure, under conditions allowing to tease out the specific role of atazanavir combined with low dose of ritonavir. EKG abnormalities (increased PR and QTc intervals) were observed in normal volunteers treated with atazanavir, therefore EKG safety monitoring will be performed on all subjects during this study
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Service d'Immunologie clinique Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou
Paris, France
Change in plasma HIV RNA level and percentage of patients with undetectable HIV-RNA in plasma at Week 26
Tolerance during the study
Changes in CD4+ counts at week 26
Emergence of drug-resistant viruses
Rate of virus decay in plasma in group 2 during the initial phase (14 days) of therapy according to baseline EC50 of atazanavir
Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of atazanavir alone at day 14
Blood samples prior to drug administration (Cmin) and after drug administration on day 14 at +1h, +2h, +3h, +5h, +8h, and +24h in 10 patients of group 2
PK assessment on Week 6, of atazanavir, after 4 weeks of co-administration with tenofovir DF. (Blood samples prior to drug administration (Cmin) and after drug administration at +1h, +2h, +3h, +5h, +8h, and +24h in the same 10 patients of group 2)
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