A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Comparative Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of 2 Dosing Regimens of an Antifungal Drug in the Treatment of Fungal Infections in Adults (0991-801)(COMPLETED)

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT00250432,

Purpose

Comparison of the safety and effectiveness of standard drug dosing versus a daily dose 3 times higher than the standard dose in patients with invasive candidiasis (bloodstream and/or systemic yeast infections)

Official Title

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Comparative Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of 2 Dosing Regimens of Caspofungin in the Treatment of Invasive Candidiasis in Adults

Stanford Investigator(s)

Dora Ho
Dora Ho

Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinical and Laboratory evidence of blood stream \&/or systemic candida infections

Exclusion Criteria:

* Possible candida contamination
* Candida colonization (non invasive infection), urine, cardiac, bone or brain and prosthetic device infections
* Acute or moderately severe liver disease
* Abnormal liver function tests
* Abnormal blood clotting for patients on blood thinners

Intervention(s):

drug: caspofungin acetate

Not Recruiting

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Joanna Schaenman

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