drugset / Trial / NCT00892697

Intrahepatic HCV RNA and Telaprevir Kinetics in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)

NCT00892697

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the decline of virus in the blood and liver in patients treated with telaprevir, pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) procedure will be used to repeatedly sample the liver to enhance the understanding of how the virus decays in the liver in response to treatment with anti-viral compounds and the measurement of the concentration of the drugs in the liver. FNA is an alternative procedure to core needle biopsy in its ability to repeatedly sample the liver with significantly reduced morbidity.

Timeline

Start
2009-05
Primary completion
2012-12
Completion
2012-12

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Telaprevir Small molecule 750 mg
Background Peginterferon alfa-2a Protein / enzyme biologic 180 ug Subcutaneous
Background Ribavirin Small molecule 1000 mg
Background Ribavirin Small molecule 1200 mg