Safety and Efficacy of Interferon-Gamma 1b in Patients With Candidemia
Sponsored by Radboud University Medical Center
About this trial
Last updated 2 years ago
Study ID
Status
Type
Phase
Placebo
Accepting
Not accepting
Trial Timing
Ended 7 months ago
What is this trial about?
What are the participation requirements?
Inclusion Criteria
- Males or non-pregnant females (who must agree to use barrier methods of contraception during the study therapy period, women of childbearing age must have a negative urine pregnancy or serum test at baseline).
- Subjects who are 18 years of age or older.
- Subjects with at least one positive blood culture isolation of Candida species from a specimen drawn within 120 hours prior to study entry.
- Subjects who have clinical evidence of infection sometime within 120 hours prior to enrolment, including at least one of the following:
- Subject or their legal representative must sign a written informed consent form.
- In case a patient eligible to participate in this study is incapacitated and as such unable to personally provide informed consent, a written consent form must be signed by their legal representative.
Exclusion Criteria
- Subjects with a history of allergy or intolerance to rIFN-γ,or any other IMP ingredient or with a history of immediate type hypersensitivity to latex/rubber.
- Subjects with a history of documented epileptic seizures.
- Subjects with severe liver failure ((>5x upper limit AST or ALT or impaired synthesis of proteins such as coagulation factors manifested by increased prothrombin time).
- Treatment with heterologous serum proteins, or immunological preparations such as vaccines, toxins, serums and allergens within three days before trial enrolment.
- Women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Subjects who are unlikely to survive more than 24 hours.
- Subjects who have failed previous systemic antifungal therapy for the Candida spp. infection which is being studied.
- Subjects who have received more than 120 hours of systemic antifungal therapy for the current episode, within 120 hours prior to study entry.
- With respect to incapacitated subjects:
- Any patient that is deemed incapable of personally providing informed consent due to a neurodegenerative disease, genetic syndrome, and/or perinatal asphyxia, will not be eligible for inclusion in this trial.
- Any incapacitated subject that is not expected to recover to a point where they will personally be able to provide informed consent will not be eligible for inclusion in this trial. Patients with renal failure or dialysis do not have a contraindication for treatment with rIFN-y and can be included in this study