The objective of this study is to determine efficacy of ritonavir-boosted lopinavir monotherapy as a maintenance regimen in HIV-1-infected patients who previously failed Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) based regimens and currently received salvage protease-inhibitor (PI) based regimens.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
63
Lopinavir/ritonavir 200/50 mg every 12 hours
Optimized background regimens such as NRTIs, etravirine or raltegravir
Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute
Nonthaburi, Thailand
Time to virological failure
virological failure was defined as having two consecutive results of HIV-1 RNA \>400 copies/ml in time separated by 4 weeks
Time frame: 48 weeks
Proportion of patients with virological suppression
virological suppression defined as having HIV-1 RNA \<40 copies/ml
Time frame: 48 weeks
Proportion of patients with virological failure
virological failure was defined as having two consecutive results of HIV-1 RNA \>400 copies/ml in time separated by 4 weeks
Time frame: 48 week
Time to loss of virological response (TLOVR)
TLOVR was defined as time between randomization and the last value that HIV-1 RNA \<40 copies/ml in a patient who initially suppressed HIV-1 RNA but subsequently demonstrated virologic rebound (two consecutive HIV-1 RNA \>40 copies/ml)
Time frame: 48 weeks
Change of CD4 cells count
Change of CD4 cells count from start of study to Week 48
Time frame: 48 weeks
Adverse events
any grade 3 or grade 4 adverse events according to DAIDS AE grading table
Time frame: 48 weeks
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