Eligible HIV-infected patients with clinically evident lipoatrophy despite treatment with efavirenz and fixed-dose combination of thymidine nucleoside analogues will be informed and asked to enroll in the study; will be randomized (1:1) into two branches, A: EFV + Fixed combinations of analogue tenofovir + emtricitabine.B (experimental): LPV/r + combination of correspondent analogues. The main variable is the evaluation of the absolute change in limb fat mass at 24 months from baseline in both groups.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
one pill QD VO.
2 pills QD VO
Hospital de Bellvitge
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias
Asturias, Spain
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
Hospital La Fe
Valencia, Spain
Hospital Xeral-Cíes
Vigo, Spain
Absolute change in limb fat mass measured by DEXA.
Time frame: 24 months.
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