Letermovir Prophylaxis for Cytomegalovirus in Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation.

Autor:	Marty FM; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Ljungman P; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Mullane KM; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. 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Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Blumberg EA; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Einsele H; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Snydman DR; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Kanda Y; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., DiNubile MJ; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Teal VL; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Wan H; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Murata Y; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Kartsonis NA; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Leavitt RY; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.)., Badshah C; From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital (F.M.M.) and Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine (D.R.S.), Boston; Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (P.L.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.F.C.); Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J.M.); City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (S.S.D.), and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (J.B.) - both in California; Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid (R.F.D.); Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S.H.); Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (A.J.U., H.E.); Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima (Y. Katayama), and Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama (Y. Kanda) - both in Japan; University of Chicago, Chicago (K.M.M.); Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle (M.B.); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (E.A.B.); and Merck, Kenilworth, NJ (M.J.D., V.L.T., H.W., Y.M., N.A.K., R.Y.L., C.B.).
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	The New England journal of medicine [N Engl J Med] 2017 Dec 21; Vol. 377 (25), pp. 2433-2444. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Dec 06.
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMoa1706640
Abstrakt:	Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a common complication after allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation. Letermovir is an antiviral drug that inhibits the CMV-terminase complex. Methods: In this phase 3, double-blind trial, we randomly assigned CMV-seropositive transplant recipients, 18 years of age or older, in a 2:1 ratio to receive letermovir or placebo, administered orally or intravenously, through week 14 after transplantation; randomization was stratified according to trial site and CMV disease risk. Letermovir was administered at a dose of 480 mg per day (or 240 mg per day in patients taking cyclosporine). Patients in whom clinically significant CMV infection (CMV disease or CMV viremia leading to preemptive treatment) developed discontinued the trial regimen and received anti-CMV treatment. The primary end point was the proportion of patients, among patients without detectable CMV DNA at randomization, who had clinically significant CMV infection through week 24 after transplantation. Patients who discontinued the trial or had missing end-point data at week 24 were imputed as having a primary end-point event. Patients were followed through week 48 after transplantation. Results: From June 2014 to March 2016, a total of 565 patients underwent randomization and received letermovir or placebo beginning a median of 9 days after transplantation. Among 495 patients with undetectable CMV DNA at randomization, fewer patients in the letermovir group than in the placebo group had clinically significant CMV infection or were imputed as having a primary end-point event by week 24 after transplantation (122 of 325 patients [37.5%] vs. 103 of 170 [60.6%], P<0.001). The frequency and severity of adverse events were similar in the two groups overall. Vomiting was reported in 18.5% of the patients who received letermovir and in 13.5% of those who received placebo; edema in 14.5% and 9.4%, respectively; and atrial fibrillation or flutter in 4.6% and 1.0%, respectively. The rates of myelotoxic and nephrotoxic events were similar in the letermovir group and the placebo group. All-cause mortality at week 48 after transplantation was 20.9% among letermovir recipients and 25.5% among placebo recipients. Conclusions: Letermovir prophylaxis resulted in a significantly lower risk of clinically significant CMV infection than placebo. Adverse events with letermovir were mainly of low grade. (Funded by Merck; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02137772 ; EudraCT number, 2013-003831-31 .).
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