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InfectionPhase 2NCT01321879

Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Telavancin in the Treatment of Gram Positive Bloodstream Infections in Cancer Patients

A Phase 2 study testing Telavancin in people with Infection and Bacteremia, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if Vibativ (telavancin) can help to control blood stream infections (BSIs). The safety of this treatment will also be studied. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Infection, Bacteremia
What is being tested?
Telavancin
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
40 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Mar 2011to Dec 2016
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients with probable or definite diagnosis of uncomplicated gram positive bacteremia that have at least one positive blood culture including 20 patients with Staphylococcus aureus and the other 20 patients will include any of the following organism ( CNS, Enterococci, streptococci, pneumococci, Corynebacterium, and Propionibacterium or Bacillus species).If the positive blood culture involves a commensal skin organism such as CNS, Corynebacterium, Propionibacterium, Micrococcus and Bacillus, then at least > 100 colonies/ml will be required or a time to positivity =/< 16 hours (as it has been shown to reflect a high grade bacteremia), or two positive blood cultures. (Time to positivity of a blood culture bottle is recorded in the microbiology laboratory by the automatic culture detector (Bactec 9240 and Bactec Plus Aerobic/F; Becton Dickinson) which records culture positivity every 15 min according to changes in fluorescence related to microbial growth).
  • Patients must have at least two signs of sepsis from the list below, in any combination at any time, within 48 hours prior to Telavancin therapy: a. Core temperature =/>38.0 degrees C or =/<36.0 degrees C, measured orally, rectally, tympanic ally or via a central catheter. If auxiliary add 0.5 degrees C to the measured temperature; b. Pulse rate =/> 100 beats/min.; c. Respiratory rate =/> 20/min.; d. WBC count =/>12,000/mm^3, =/<4,000/mm or differential count showing >10% band forms; e. Systolic blood pressure =/<90 mm Hg. Patient will still be eligible for the study if the participants white blood cell count (WBC) is outside normal limits due to chemotherapy treatment or underlying conditions.
  • Male or non-pregnant, non-lactating females with an age of greater than or equal to 18 years.
  • Signed informed consent.
  • Female patients must be at no risk for pregnancy for one of the following reasons: - Postmenopausal for at least one year - Post-hysterectomy and/or post-bilateral ovariectomy - If of childbearing potential, having a negative serum human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) pregnancy test with in 5 days prior to enrollment and be using a highly effective method of birth control throughout the course of the study. Reliable sexual abstinence throughout the course of the study is acceptable as a highly effective method of birth control for the purposes of this study.

Who cannot join

  • Estimated Serum Creatinine Clearance <30 mL/min (according to Cock-Gault-formula using ideal body weight) at the time gram positive bacteremia was diagnosed unless the patient is on dialysis.
  • Bilirubin >4x the upper limit of normal at the time gram positive bacteremia was diagnosed.
  • Treatment with an antibiotic, such as vancomycin, linezolid, tigecycline or Telavancin, effective against resistant gram positive bacterial infections, such as methicillin resistant staphylococci, for more than 48 hours within 72 hours of study medication initiation, unless treatment failed that is defined as a persistent fever and/or leukocytosis for 72 hours or longer of appropriate antibiotics treatment.
  • History of hypersensitivity to lipoglycopeptides.
  • Presence of deep-sited intravascular source of infection with same organism cultured from blood, e.g. endocarditis (as evidenced by vegetations on an echocardiogram), or septic thrombosis.
  • Presence of a prosthetic valve.
  • Oliguria defined as urine output of <20 cc/hour averaged over 24 hours.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

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About this study

Official title: Phase II, Open-Label Pilot Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Telavancin in the Treatment of Gram Positive Bloodstream Infections in Cancer Patients

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if Vibativ (telavancin) can help to control blood stream infections (BSIs). The safety of this treatment will also be studied.

Objectives:

Evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of Telavancin given for treatment of gram positive bacteremia in cancer patients (including neutropenics).

Read the detailed description

The Study Drug:

Telavancin is an antibiotic designed to treat a variety of bacterial infections that are difficult to treat.

Central Venous Catheter (CVC):

A CVC is a sterile flexible tube could have been placed into a large vein while you were under local anesthesia.

If you have a certain type of infection, your doctor may decided to remove or exchange your CVC. The decision to remove or exchange the CVC and timing of the placement of the new CVC will be decided by your primary doctor.

If you are to get a new CVC, your doctor will explain this procedure to you in more detail, and you will be required to sign a separate consent form.

Study Treatment:

If you are found to be eligible to take part in this study, you will receive telavancin by vein over a period of 60 minutes once daily for at least 7 days and for up to 6 weeks. How long you receive the study drug will depend on the type of bacterial infection that you have and if your doctor thinks you may have a complicated bacterial infection of the blood.

If the doctor thinks that you have a mixed infection (2 or more certain types of bacteria), you may also be given another type of antibiotic (such as aztreonam, cefepime, imipenem, meropenem, ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, bactrim, piperacillin/tazobactam and/or amoxicillin/clavulanate).

If the doctor thinks it is needed, you will have an echocardiogram to check your heart function. This test will only be performed if you have a specific type of infection (to make sure you do not have inflammation in the lining of the heart). You will be asked about medications you are taking.

If you are discharged from the hospital before completing the study drug, you will be able to take the drug as an outpatient. Your primary doctor may arrange for you to receive medication at M. D. Anderson.

Study Visits:

Once a week:

  • Blood (about 1 tablespoon) will be drawn for routine tests. It may be drawn from the CVC, if the CVC is still in place.
  • The CVC exit site will be checked at each visit until you have no more signs or symptoms of infection.
  • You will be asked about any symptoms or illnesses that you may have had since your last visit.

Every other day, blood (about 1 tablespoon) will be drawn to check for the infection until it no longer shows signs of infection. Kidney function will be monitored by performing a blood test every 2 days for the first week and weekly after that.

Length of Study:

You can receive the study drug for up to 6 weeks. You will be taken off this study if the infection gets worse or any intolerable side effects occur.

End-of-Study Visit and Follow-up Visit:

You will need to return to MD Anderson for your end of treatment visit, within 7 days after you last dose of study drug. The end-of-study visit will occur within 7 days after your last dose of the study drug.

The follow-up visit will occur about 32 days (about 1 month) after your last dose of the study drug. At each of these visits, you will have the following exams/procedures performed.

  • You will have a physical exam, including measurement of your vital signs.
  • Blood (about 1 tablespoon) will be drawn for routine tests and to check for bacterial infection. The blood sample may be drawn from the CVC, if the CVC is still in place. The CVC exit site will be examined.
  • You will be asked about any symptoms or illnesses that you may have had since your last visit.
  • You will be asked about any drugs or therapies that you may be taking until the end of your treatment.
  • If your infection recurs during the follow-up period, and if the doctor thinks it is needed, you will have an echocardiogram to check your heart function and to make sure you do not have inflammation in the lining of the heart.

This is an investigational study. Telavancin is FDA approved and commercially available for the treatment infections of the skin and soft tissue. Its use to treat blood infections in this study is investigational.

Up to 40 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at M. D. Anderson.

Being tested
Telavancin
Keywords
Gram Positive Bloodstream Infections, Sepsis, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococci, Streptococci, Pneumococci, Corynebacterium, Propionibacterium or Bacillus species, Telavancin, Vibativ
Medical subject headings
Infections, Bacteremia, Sepsis, Staphylococcal Infections

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • TelavancinDrug

    Also called Vibativ

    10 mg/kg by vein once daily for patients with a creatinine clearance of more than 50 ml/min, and a dose of 7.5 mg/kg once daily for patients with a creatinine clearance of 30-50 ml/min.

Study groups in NCT01321879
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
TelavancinExperimental10 or 7.5 mg/kg intravenous daily
Receives: Drug: Telavancin

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Patient Clinical Response to Telavancin

    Clinical response assessed: Cure (No fever/chills or symptoms + eradication causing organism); Improvement (Resolution local/systemic symptoms + no new systemic antibacterial treatment); Failure (IF one or more following: Persistence 1+ symptoms [fever/chills] + new systemic anti gram positive treatment, > 72 hours after initiation study drug; or Relapse within 1 month completing antibiotic therapy; or Development of deep-seated infection not previously assessed); Indeterminate (clinical signs and symptoms cannot be assessed).

    Measured: From baseline up to 6 weeks, assessed every 7 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted24 Mar 2011 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2011
  3. Primary completionDec 2016
  4. Study completionDec 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
40 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01321879
Sponsor's protocol ID
2010-0454
Other IDs
NCI-2011-00752
Status last verified
Dec 2019
First submitted
17 Mar 2011
Last updated
27 Dec 2019
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Chaftari AM, Hachem R, Jordan M, Garoge K, Al Hamal Z, El Zakhem A, Viola GM, Granwehr B, Mulanovich V, Gagel A, Reitzel R, Yousif A, Jiang Y, Raad I. Case-Control Study of Telavancin as an Alternative Treatment for Gram-Positive Bloodstream Infections in Patients with Cancer. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Oct 19;60(1):239-44. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00617-15. Print 2016 Jan.

    PubMed 26482312

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Telavancin in people with Infection and Bacteremia, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Dec 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 27 Dec 2019). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Patient Clinical Response to Telavancin (time frame: From baseline up to 6 weeks, assessed every 7 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01321879, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Dec 2019.

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