RECRUITINGPhase 2INTERVENTIONAL
Tnf Inhibitors to Reduce Mortality in HIV-1 Infected PAtients With Tuberculosis meNIngitis
ANRS 12404 TIMPANI: Tnf Inhibitors to Reduce Mortality in HIV-1 Infected PAtients With Tuberculosis meNIngitis: a Phase II, Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial
About This Trial
Randomized phase II clinical trial which aims to assess the impact on 3-month mortality and safety of adding adalimumab to standard treatment (anti-tuberculosis drugs and corticosteroids) in HIV patients with tuberculosis meningitis in 3 countries (Brazil, Mozambique, and Zambia).
Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)
Who May Qualify:
- Age ≥18 years
- HIV-1 infection
- Definite or probable tuberculosis meningitis
- Standard tuberculosis meningitis treatment ≤3 days: anti TB drugs at standard doses and high-dose dexamethasone as per WHO guidelines
- Signed willing to sign a consent form form by patient or relative.
Who Should NOT Join This Trial:
- Other concomitant neurological infection, i.e. toxoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, bacterial meningitis, neuro-syphilis
- Asymptomatic positive cryptococcal antigen in serum
- HBsAg positive or anti hepatitis C virus antibodies positive
- Alanine transaminase (ALT)\>5 ULN
- Rifampicin-resistant TB detected by GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra
- History of previous TB treatment in patients with GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra negative or unavailable
- Current use of drugs contraindicated with study drugs and that cannot be safely stopped
- Allergy to study drugs or any of their components
- Uncontrolled opportunistic infection
- Moderate to severe cardiac insufficiency (NYHA classes III / IV)
- Any condition which might, in the investigator's opinion, compromise the safety of treatment and/or patient's adherence to study procedures
- For women of childbearing age: 1) Pregnancy or breastfeeding; 2) Refusal to use effective contraception to be discussed with the investigator
- Subjects participating in another clinical trial evaluating therapies and including an exclusion period that is still in force during the screening phase
- Person under guardianship, or deprived of freedom by a judicial or administrative decision
Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.
Original Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Age ≥18 years
* HIV-1 infection
* Definite or probable tuberculosis meningitis
* Standard tuberculosis meningitis treatment ≤3 days: anti TB drugs at standard doses and high-dose dexamethasone as per WHO guidelines
* Signed informed consent form by patient or relative.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Other concomitant neurological infection, i.e. toxoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, bacterial meningitis, neuro-syphilis
* Asymptomatic positive cryptococcal antigen in serum
* HBsAg positive or anti hepatitis C virus antibodies positive
* Alanine transaminase (ALT)\>5 ULN
* Rifampicin-resistant TB detected by GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra
* History of previous TB treatment in patients with GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra negative or unavailable
* Current use of drugs contraindicated with study drugs and that cannot be safely stopped
* Allergy to study drugs or any of their components
* Uncontrolled opportunistic infection
* Moderate to severe cardiac insufficiency (NYHA classes III / IV)
* Any condition which might, in the investigator's opinion, compromise the safety of treatment and/or patient's adherence to study procedures
* For women of childbearing age: 1) Pregnancy or breastfeeding; 2) Refusal to use effective contraception to be discussed with the investigator
* Subjects participating in another clinical trial evaluating therapies and including an exclusion period that is still in force during the screening phase
* Person under guardianship, or deprived of freedom by a judicial or administrative decision
Treatments Being Tested
DRUG
Adalimumab Injection
one sub-cutaneous injection, every 2 weeks for 10 weeks (total 6 injections), started as soon as possible during the first 3 days of antituberculosis treatment and high-dose steroids
Locations (3)
Laboratory of clinical research on STD/AIDS - IPEC/FIOCRUZ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Saude
Maputo, Mozambique
Adult Infectious Diseases Centre, University Teaching Hospital
Lusaka, Zambia