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This is a pilot study of intervention in a group of patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/ myelopathy to evaluate virologic and clinical response of raltegravir plus zidovudine in this group of patients.


Clinical Trial Description

The study will the investigators develop in The Tropical Medicine Institute Alexander von Humboldt that is a referral center in Peru for diseases associated to Human T-Lymphotropic Virus 1 Infection (HTLV-1). The Institute has a cohort of around 600 patients currently being followed up and around 20 to 25 new patients are admitted every year with this disease.

This is a pilot study of intervention in a group of patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/ myelopathy to evaluate virologic and clinical response of raltegravir plus zidovudine in this group of patients on the follow-up of 48 weeks. ;


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NCT number NCT02655471
Study type Interventional
Source Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
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Status Completed
Phase Early Phase 1
Start date July 1, 2017
Completion date March 15, 2019

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