| Autor: |
R E, McKinney, G M, Johnson, K, Stanley, F H, Yong, A, Keller, K J, O'Donnell, P, Brouwers, W G, Mitchell, R, Yogev, D W, Wara, A, Wiznia, L, Mofenson, J, McNamara, S A, Spector |
| Rok vydání: |
1998 |
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| Zdroj: |
The Journal of pediatrics. 133(4) |
| ISSN: |
0022-3476 |
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The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) Protocol 300 assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of combination zidovudine/lamivudine (ZDV/3TC) compared with either didanosine (ddI) alone or combination ZDV/ddI.Children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, 6 weeks through 15 years of age, were stratified according to age and randomly assigned to receive ddI, ZDV/3TC, or ZDV/ddI. The primary endpoint was time to first progression of HIV disease or death. Enrollment in the ZDV/ddI arm stopped after 11 months on the basis of results of PACTG Protocol 152, but blinded follow-up continued.For the 471 children who could be evaluated, the median age was 2.7 years, median CD4 cell count was 699 cells/mm3, and median log10 HIV RNA was 5.1/mL. Median follow-up was 9.4 months. Patients receiving ZDV/3TC had a lower risk of HIV disease progression or death than those receiving ddI alone (15 vs 38 failures, P = .0006) and a lower risk of death (3 vs 15 deaths, P = .0039). Weight and height growth rates, CD4+ cell counts, and RNA concentrations showed results favoring ZDV/3TC. For patients concurrently randomized to all 3 treatment arms, both ZDV/3TC and ZDV/ddI recipients had lower risk of HIV disease progression than those who received ddI alone (P = .0026 and P = .0045).Combination therapy with either ZDV/3TC or ZDV/ddI was superior, as determined by clinical and laboratory measures, to monotherapy with ddI. |
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