Tripe Versus Dual Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Patients With Virological Suppression (Tridual) (Tridual)

August 27, 2021 updated by: Luis F. Lopez-Cortes, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío

Is Dual Therapy as Effective as Triple Therapy Regarding CD4+/CD8+ Ratio Recovery and Improvement of Immune Activation and Inflammation in HIV-infected Patients With Consistent Plasma Viral Load Suppression (Tridual)

The persistence of an aberrant state of immune activation and inflammation (pIA) may contribute to the emergence of serious non-AIDS events which carry a higher morbimortality in HIV-infected patients. Although combined antiretroviral treatment (cART) reduces both cellular and soluble activation markers, it fails to completely control pIA despite consistent plasma viral load suppression. One of the mechanisms involved in pIA is may be an incomplete suppression of viral replication not reflected by plasma viral load, which only reflects a balance between viral replication and clearance of HIV-RNA. In addition, low-level viremia detected in most HIV-1-infected patients despite years on cART. Unintegrated 2-LTR HIV-DNA, and cellular associated HIV-RNAs, as products of active integrated DNA transcription, support this issue.

Furthermore, the key rationales behind simplifying cART are a reduction of toxicities, lower risk of resistance mutations in case of virological failure and saving costs. One of these simplification strategies is a dual therapy which, based on the data up to date and in our clinical experience, has similar virological efficacy than cART. However, it is unknown if this strategy could increase the persistent HIV-1 replication and, therefore, pIA. The CD4+/CD8+ T cell ratio as a marker of immune recovery, the changes in T cell immune activation, senescence, exhaustion and apoptosis, and the cellular associated HIV-DNA and -RNA would answer the question if simplification to dual therapy would provide less control of residual HIV replication and, therefore, a detriment on pIA compared to triple therapy and, therefore, would worsen the patients' long-term prognosis.

Study Overview

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Detailed Description

Primary Outcome Measures: to evaluate the changes in the CD4/CD8 ratio, immune activation and other immunologic parameters at 48 weeks after switching to dual therapy based on dolutegravir plus emtricitabine o darunavir/cobicistat plus emtricitabine versus to continue on triple therapy based on integrase inhibitor plus 2 analogs Secondary Outcome Measures: to evaluate the changes in the CD4/CD8 ratio, immune activation and other immunologic parameters at 96 weeks after switching to dual therapy based on dolutegravir plus emtricitabine o darunavir/cobicistat plus emtricitabine versus to continue on triple therapy based on integrase inhibitor plus 2 analogs

Method: randomized clinical trial in which adult HIV-infected patients with an undetectable plasma HIV-RNA for at least one year on a triple therapy based on integrase inhibitors plus two nucleos(t)ide analogs will be randomized in 3 groups (1:1:1) with 4 strata according to the previous time with undetectable viral load to:

  1. Continue the previous ART based on Elvitegravircobicistat 150150 mg + tenofovir alafenamide 10 mg + emtricitabine 200 mg (Genvoya™) o Dolutegravir 50 mg + abacavir 600 mg + lamivudine 300 mg (Triumeq™) once daily.

    Or to switch to:

  2. Darunavir/cobicistat (800150 mg) + 3TC (300 mg) once daily or
  3. Dolutegravir (50 mg) + 3TC (300 mg) once daily.

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

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153

Phase

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  • Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • Spain
      • Sevilla, Spain, 41013
        • Virgen del Rocio University Hospital

Participation Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • HIV-1-infected patients ≥ 18 years of age.
  • Starting date of antiretroviral treatment later than 01/01/2010
  • Plasma HIV-1 RNA <20 copies/ml for at least one year on triple therapy
  • Antiretroviral treatment based on an integrase inhibitor plus two nucleos(t)ide analogs in the last 6 months.
  • Signed written informed consent prior to inclusion.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Primary resistance to any of the drugs included in the study.
  • Active opportunistic infection.
  • Pregnancy at inclusion or during the follow-up
  • Active hepatitis C and/or B virus co-infection.
  • Cirrhosis, portal hypertension and/or hypersplenism of any etiology.
  • Current or past malignancies subsidiary of treatment with corticosteroids, immunomodulatory agents, interferon or chemotherapeutic agents.
  • Any laboratory abnormality grade 3 or 4 according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of AIDS.
  • Concomitant use of drugs with potential major interactions with the prescribed drugs according to the respective full prescribing information.
  • Estimated creatinine clearance <50 ml/min

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Active Comparator: Triple therapy
To Continue with triple therapy with Elvitegravir/cobicistat + tenofovir alafenamide + emtricitabine or Dolutegravir + abacavir + lamivudine once daily.
Drug: Continue with triple therapy
To continue with triple therapy
Experimental: Switch to dual therapy A
Switch to dual therapy with Darunavir/cobicistat (800150 mg) + lamivudine (300 mg) once daily once daily.
Drug: Switch to DTG + 3TC
Switch to dolutegravir + lamivudine once daily
Experimental: Switch to dual therapy B
Switch to dual therapy with Dolutegravir (50 mg) + lamivudine (300 mg) once daily
Drug: Switch to DRV/cobicistat + 3TC
Switch to darunavir/cobicistat + lamivudine once daily

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
CD4/CD8 ratio
Time Frame: 48 weeks
To evaluate if a triple therapy based on integrase inhibitors plus two nucleos(t)ide analogs will provide a higher CD4+/CD8+ T cell ratio recovery compared with dual therapies based on darunavir/cobicistat plus lamivudine or dolutegravir plus lamivudine after 48 weeks of treatment in HIV-infected patients with consistent plasma viral load suppression.
48 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Immune activation
Time Frame: 48 weeks
To assess whether dual therapies provide an increase in immune activation and inflammation compared to triple therapy assessed by the expression of HLA-DR and CD38 in both of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and sCD14 after 48 weeks of treatment.
48 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

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Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío

Collaborators

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Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Investigators

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  • Study Director: Luis F Lopez-Cortes, PhD, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital. Seville. Spain

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

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June 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

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September 15, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

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February 3, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

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July 11, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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February 26, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

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February 27, 2018

Study Record Updates

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August 30, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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August 27, 2021

Last Verified

Last Verified

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August 1, 2021

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  • FIS-TAR-01-2016
  • 2016-005226-11 (EudraCT Number)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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