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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03443869
Other study ID # 8228-002
Secondary ID MK-8228-0022017-
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received
Last updated
Start date May 3, 2018
Est. completion date April 5, 2022

Study information

Verified date July 2023
Source Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of letermovir (LET) versus valganciclovir (VGCV) in preventing CMV disease in adult kidney transplant recipients. The primary hypotheses are that LET is non-inferior to VGCV; and if non-inferiority is demonstrated, that LET is superior to VGCV, in preventing CMV disease through 52 weeks post-transplant.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 601
Est. completion date April 5, 2022
Est. primary completion date April 5, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Have a documented negative serostatus for CMV within 180 days prior to randomization. - Anticipate receiving a primary or secondary allograft kidney from a CMV IgG seropositive (D+) donor at the time of screening AND have received a primary or secondary allograft kidney from a documented D+ donor at the time of randomization. - Be within 0 (i.e. day of transplantation) to 7 days (inclusive) post-kidney transplant at the time of randomization. - Males agree to use contraception during the treatment period, and for at least 90 days after the last dose of study treatment, and refrain from donating sperm during this period. - Female is not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and is not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP), OR if a WOCBP, agrees to follow the contraception guidance during the treatment period and for at least 90 days after the last dose of study treatment. Exclusion Criteria: - Has received a previous solid organ transplant or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Note: Participants who have received a prior primary allograft kidney may be enrolled, provided that all other inclusion/exclusion criteria are met. - Is a multi-organ transplant recipient (e.g. kidney-pancreas). Double kidney transplant recipients (i.e. transplant of two kidneys from the same donor to the same recipient simultaneously) will be excluded. - Has a history of CMV disease or suspected CMV disease within 6 months prior to randomization. - Has suspected or known hypersensitivity to active or inactive ingredients of LET formulations, VGCV, GCV, and/or ACV formulations. - Is on dialysis or plasmapheresis at the time of randomization. Dialysis includes hemofiltration. - Has Child-Pugh Class C severe hepatic insufficiency at screening. - Has both moderate hepatic insufficiency AND moderate-to-severe renal insufficiency at screening. - Has any uncontrolled infection on the day of randomization. - Has documented positive results for human immunodeficiency virus antibody (HIV-Ab) test at any time prior to randomization, or for hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV-Ab) and with detectable HCV ribonucleic acid (RNA) within 90 days prior to randomization, or hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) within 90 days prior to randomization. - Requires mechanical ventilation, or is hemodynamically unstable, at the time of randomization. - Has a history of malignancy =5 years prior to signing informed consent. - Is pregnant or expecting to conceive, is breastfeeding, or plans to breastfeed from the time of consent through at least 90 days following cessation of study therapy. - Is expecting to donate eggs or sperm starting from the time of consent through at least 90 days following cessation of study therapy. - Has received within 30 days prior to randomization or plans to receive during the study any of the following anti-CMV IgG antibody treatment or anti-CMV drug therapy including the following: Cidofovir, CMV hyper-immune globulin, Any investigational CMV antiviral agent/biologic therapy. - Has received within 7 days prior to randomization or plans to receive during the study any of the following anti-CMV drug therapy: LET, GCV, VGCV, Foscarnet, ACV, Valacyclovir, Famciclovir. - Is a user of recreational or illicit drugs or has had a recent history (within the last year) of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence. - Is currently participating or has participated in a study with an unapproved investigational compound or device within 28 days, or 5× half-life of the investigational compound whichever is longer, of initial dosing on this study. - Has previously participated in this study or any other study involving LET. - Has previously participated or is currently participating in any study involving administration of a CMV vaccine or another CMV investigational agent, or is planning to participate in a study of a CMV vaccine or another CMV investigational agent during the course of this study.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Letermovir
LET 480mg (or 240 mg when administered concomitantly with cyclosporin A) once daily for 28 weeks
Valganciclovir
900 mg VGCV tablet orally, once daily for 28 weeks
Acyclovir (ACV)
400 mg over-encapsulated ACV tablet orally, every 12 hours for 28 weeks
Placebo to ACV
Over-encapsulated placebo tablet orally, every 12 hours for 28 weeks
Placebo to LET
Placebo to LET tablet orally, once daily for 28 weeks
Placebo to VGCV
Placebo to VGCV tablet orally, once daily for 28 weeks

Locations

Country Name City State
Argentina CEMIC ( Site 0352) Buenos Aires Caba
Argentina Instituto de Nefrologia Nephrology S.A. ( Site 0182) Buenos Aires
Argentina Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires ( Site 0188) Caba
Argentina Instituto de Cardiología de Corrientes Juana F. Cabral ( Site 0181) Corrientes
Argentina Hospital El Cruce Nestor Carlos Kirchner ( Site 0351) Florencio Varela Buenos Aires
Argentina Clinica de nefrologia urologia y enfermedades cardiovasculares ( Site 0354) Santa Fe
Australia Royal Adelaide Hospital ( Site 0003) Adelaide South Australia
Australia Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ( Site 0005) Camperdown New South Wales
Australia Monash Health-Monash Medical Centre ( Site 0008) Clayton Victoria
Australia Royal Melbourne Hospital ( Site 0007) Parkville Victoria
Australia Westmead Hospital ( Site 0006) Westmead New South Wales
Australia Princess Alexandra Hospital ( Site 0004) Woolloongabba Queensland
Austria Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck ( Site 0033) Innsbruck Tirol
Austria Allgemeines Krankenhaus Universitaetskliniken Wien ( Site 0032) Wien
Belgium Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles - CUB - Hopital Erasme ( Site 0042) Bruxelles Bruxelles-Capitale, Region De
Belgium Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen ( Site 0041) Edegem Antwerpen
Belgium UZ Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg ( Site 0044) Leuven Vlaams-Brabant
Canada University of Alberta Hospital ( Site 0221) Edmonton Alberta
Canada Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont CIUSSS de l Est de L Ile de Montreal ( Site 0226) Montreal Quebec
Canada Toronto General Hospital ( Site 0222) Toronto Ontario
Canada St. Paul's Hospital ( Site 0225) Vancouver British Columbia
Canada Vancouver General Hospital ( Site 0224) Vancouver British Columbia
Colombia Clinica Colsanitas S.A. Sede Clinica Universitaria Colombia ( Site 0209) Bogota Distrito Capital De Bogota
Colombia Clinica del Country ( Site 0208) Bogota Distrito Capital De Bogota
Colombia Hospital Universitario Mayor Mederi CIMED ( Site 0206) Bogota Distrito Capital De Bogota
Colombia Sociedad de Cirugia de Bogota Hospital de San Jose ( Site 0203) Bogota Distrito Capital De Bogota
Colombia Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia ( Site 0210) Bucaramanca Santander
Colombia Centro Medico Imbanaco de Cali S.A ( Site 0201) Cali Valle Del Cauca
Colombia Fundacion Valle del Lili ( Site 0285) Cali Valle Del Cauca
Colombia Hospital San Vicente Fundación - Rionegro ( Site 0205) Rionegro Antioquia
France CHU de Bordeaux. Hopital Pellegrin ( Site 0055) Bordeaux Gironde
France Hopital Henri Mondor du Creteil ( Site 0063) Creteil Val-de-Marne
France CHU - Hopital de Bicetre ( Site 0060) Le kremlin bicetre Val-de-Marne
France Hopital Pasteur ( Site 0053) Nice Alpes-Maritimes
France Hopital Tenon ( Site 0061) Paris
France CHU Rangueil ( Site 0054) Toulouse Haute-Garonne
France C.H.R.U Bretonneau ( Site 0051) Tours Indre-et-Loire
Germany Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin ( Site 0071) Berlin
Germany Universitaetsklinikum Essen ( Site 0074) Essen Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany Medizinische Hochschule Hannover ( Site 0073) Hannover Niedersachsen
Hungary Semmelweis Egyetem ( Site 0281) Budapest
Hungary Debreceni Egyetem. ( Site 0283) Debrecen
Hungary Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem AOK ( Site 0282) Pecs Baranya
Hungary Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem ( Site 0284) Szeged Csongrad
Italy IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele di Milano ( Site 0098) Milano
Italy Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova U.O.C. Trapianti Rene e Pancreas ( Site 0091) Padova Veneto
Italy Policlinico Gemelli Instituto di Clinica Chirurgica ( Site 0093) Roma
Italy A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino ( Site 0096) Torino Piemonte
Mexico Centenario Hospital Miguel Hidalgo ( Site 0215) Aguascalientes
Mexico Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran ( Site 0214) Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico Instituto Mexicano de Trasplantes S C ( Site 0212) Cuernavaca Morelos
Mexico Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez ( Site 0213) Mexico City
Mexico Faicic S de RL de CV ( Site 0211) Veracruz
New Zealand Auckland City Hospital ( Site 0002) Auckland
Poland Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne ( Site 0170) Gdansk Pomorskie
Poland Szpital Wojewodzki w Poznaniu ( Site 0168) Poznan Wielkopolskie
Poland Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny ( Site 0167) Szczecin Zachodniopomorskie
Poland Szpital Kliniczny Dzieciatka Jezus ( Site 0165) Warszawa Mazowieckie
Poland Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny im. Jana Mikulicza-Radeckiego ( Site 0162) Wroclaw Dolnoslaskie
Spain Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona ( Site 0113) Barcelona
Spain Hospital del Mar ( Site 0121) Barcelona La Coruna
Spain Hospital Universitari Vall de Hebron ( Site 0112) Barcelona
Spain Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge IDIBELL ( Site 0114) L Hospitalet De Llobregat La Coruna
Spain Hospital Doce de Octubre ( Site 0116) Madrid
Spain Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet ( Site 0118) Zaragoza
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth Hospital ( Site 0356) Birmingham
United Kingdom St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ( Site 0136) London London, City Of
United States The Emory Clinic ( Site 0247) Atlanta Georgia
United States Johns Hopkins Hospital ( Site 0232) Baltimore Maryland
United States University of Maryland Medical Center ( Site 0234) Baltimore Maryland
United States UAB ( Site 0269) Birmingham Alabama
United States Brigham & Women's Hospital ( Site 0244) Boston Massachusetts
United States Medical University of South Carolina ( Site 0257) Charleston South Carolina
United States University of Chicago ( Site 0251) Chicago Illinois
United States The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ( Site 0264) Columbus Ohio
United States Henry Ford Hospital ( Site 0242) Detroit Michigan
United States Duke University Medical Center ( Site 0243) Durham North Carolina
United States Indiana University ( Site 0261) Indianapolis Indiana
United States Saint Barnabas Medical Center ( Site 0250) Livingston New Jersey
United States UCLA Medical Center ( Site 0266) Los Angeles California
United States Vanderbilt University Medical Center ( Site 0275) Nashville Tennessee
United States Ochsner Clinic Foundation ( Site 0238) New Orleans Louisiana
United States Columbia University Medical Center ( Site 0255) New York New York
United States Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( Site 0256) New York New York
United States New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center ( Site 0276) New York New York
United States University of Nebraska Medical Center ( Site 0272) Omaha Nebraska
United States University of Pennsylvania ( Site 0270) Philadelphia Pennsylvania
United States University of Pittsburgh ( Site 0252) Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
United States Virginia Commonwealth University ( Site 0245) Richmond Virginia
United States UC Davis Medical Center ( Site 0271) Sacramento California
United States University of California-San Francisco ( Site 0236) San Francisco California
United States University of Washington Medical Center ( Site 0246) Seattle Washington
United States Stanford Health Care ( Site 0235) Stanford California
United States Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ( Site 0260) Winston-Salem North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Argentina,  Australia,  Austria,  Belgium,  Canada,  Colombia,  France,  Germany,  Hungary,  Italy,  Mexico,  New Zealand,  Poland,  Spain,  United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (1)

Limaye AP, Budde K, Humar A, Vincenti F, Kuypers DRJ, Carroll RP, Stauffer N, Murata Y, Strizki JM, Teal VL, Gilbert CL, Haber BA. Letermovir vs Valganciclovir for Prophylaxis of Cytomegalovirus in High-Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Randomized Clin — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Percentage of Participants With Adjudicated Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease Through 52 Weeks Post-transplant CMV disease was defined as the presence of either CMV end-organ disease or CMV syndrome and was confirmed by an independent, blinded Clinical Adjudication Committee (CAC). Only CAC-confirmed ("adjudicated") cases were included in percentage of participants who met the endpoint. Investigator-assessed cases which were not confirmed by the CAC were not included. Up to 52 weeks
Secondary Percentage of Participants With Adjudicated CMV Disease Through 28 Weeks Post-transplant CMV disease was defined as the presence of either CMV end-organ disease or CMV syndrome and was confirmed by an independent, blinded CAC. Only CAC-confirmed ("adjudicated") cases were included in percentage of participants who met the endpoint. Investigator-assessed cases which were not confirmed by the CAC were not included. Up to 28 weeks
Secondary Time to Onset of Adjudicated CMV Disease Through 52 Weeks Post-transplant The time to onset of adjudicated CMV disease was calculated in days, from the day of randomization to the day of onset of CMV disease as determined by the CAC. Up to 52 weeks
Secondary Percentage of Participants With Any AE An AE was defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a participant or clinical investigation participant administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with this treatment. An AE could therefore be any unfavourable and unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure, whether or not considered related to the medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure. Any worsening of a preexisting condition that is temporally associated with the use of the Sponsor's product, was also an AE. Up to 52 weeks
Secondary Percentage of Participants With Any Drug-related Serious Adverse Event (SAE) An SAE was an AE that resulted in death, was life threatening, resulted in persistent or significant disability/incapacity, resulted in or prolonged an existing inpatient hospitalization, was a congenital anomaly/birth defect, was a cancer, was associated with an overdose, was another important medical event. SAEs that the investigator determined the relationship of the AE to the treatment as at least possibly related were reported. Up to 52 weeks
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