Status:

COMPLETED

Acetato de Caspofungin (Cancidas®) in the Treatment of Fungal Infection

Lead Sponsor:

PETHEMA Foundation

Collaborating Sponsors:

GTEI

SEMICYUC

Conditions:

Candidiasis

Aspergillosis

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

We wanted to determine the efficacy and the safety of caspofungin acetate (CANCIDAS®) in the treatment of invader fungal infection (IFI) specifically, Invasive Candidiasis (CI) in adults patients with...

Detailed Description

Study post-marketing (observational). It is multicenter and prospective. No masking is used, without control group neither is randomized

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Female and male with 18 years old at least.
  • Diagnosis of AI or CI. It will be based in Clinical History, signs and symptoms that the patient takes, discovery of studies of radiology and results of cultivation and/or studies of anatomopathology positives for Candida spp. or Aspergillus spp.
  • Patients with AI, must be refractory to or intolerant of other therapies antifungal used in the hospital.
  • Patients with CI, must be or not refractory to or intolerant of other therapies antifungal used in the hospital.

Exclusion

  • Patients with diagnosis uncertain based in one or more of next criterions: Cultivation positive for Candida in an only localization (urine, spittle, end/current of catheter; osteomyelitis or endocarditis by Candida without treatment appropriated surgical; infection by Candida of prosthetic material without retired of the same; positive blood cultive for Candida in appearance of vascular prosthesis; allergic lung Aspergillosis; and aspergilloma or aspergillosis eye without treatment appropriated surgical).
  • Allergic / hypersensitivity to caspofungin.
  • Insufficiency several liver (rate of Chile-Pugh \>9).
  • Prediction of survival \<5 days.
  • Pregnant or breast feeding.
  • Previous Participation of patient in this study.
  • Presence of other disease or any condition that it can mix up the interpretation of results or create risks.
  • Previous Participation of patient in other clinical study that it involve the administration of a drug in investigation in the 14 days previous to your inclusion in the study or during the administration of caspofungin. We can include patients took with antineoplastic drugs in research whenever at lefts a Investigator Coordinator authorizes it before

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2004

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

February 1 2008

Estimated Enrollment :

320 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00388167

Start Date

March 1 2004

End Date

February 1 2008

Last Update

May 13 2009

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Hospital General de Alicante

Alicante, Alicante, Spain

2

Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

3

Hospital Clínico y Provincial de Barcelona

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

4

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain