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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2018

A multicenter, double-blind, randomized, comparison study of the efficacy and safety of tigecycline to imipenem/cilastatin to treat complicated intra-abdominal infections in hospitalized subjects in China.

Yijian Chen, Demei Zhu, Yingyuan Zhang, Yongjie Zhao, Gang Chen, Ping Li, Lihong Xu, Ping Yan, M Anne Hickman, Xiajun Xu and 2 more

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01721408 (A Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Comparison Study Of The Efficacy And Safety Of Tigecycline To Imipenem/Cilastatin To Treat Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections In Hospitalized Subjects.), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT01721408 phase4completednot on this map

A Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Comparison Study Of The Efficacy And Safety Of Tigecycline To Imipenem/Cilastatin To Treat Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections In Hospitalized Subjects.

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2012 to 2015Enrolled470ConditionsIntra-abdominal InfectionArmsTigecycline, Imipenem/cilastatin
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yijian ChenInstitute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China, yyzhang39@hotmail.com.
Demei ZhuInstitute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China, yyzhang39@hotmail.com.
Yingyuan ZhangInstitute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China, yyzhang39@hotmail.com.
Yongjie ZhaoDepartment of General Surgery, Tianjin Union Medical Center, Tianjin, China.
Gang ChenDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First People's Hospital of Kunming, Kunming, China.
Ping LiDepartment of General Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China.
Lihong XuPfizer (China) Research & Development Co, Ltd, Shanghai, China.
Ping YanPfizer (China) Research & Development Co, Ltd, Shanghai, China.
M Anne HickmanPfizer Inc., Collegeville, PA, USA.
Xiajun XuPfizer (China) Research & Development Co, Ltd, Shanghai, China.
Margaret TawadrousPfizer Inc., Collegeville, PA, USA.
Michele WiblePfizer Inc., Collegeville, PA, USA.
Fudan University · CNPfizer (China) · CNPfizer (United States) · USTianjin People's Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo assess the efficacy and safety of tigecycline in treating complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs) in hospitalized patients in China. PATIENTS AND

methodsA Phase IV, multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, active-controlled, non-inferiority study was conducted. Hospitalized cIAI patients ≥18 years of age were randomized (1:1) to receive intravenous tigecycline (initial dose 100 mg, then 50 mg q12h) or imipenem/cilastatin (500 mg/500 mg or adjusted for renal dysfunction, q6h) for 5-14 days. The primary end point was clinical response for clinically evaluable (CE) subjects at test-of-cure (TOC) assessment.

resultsFour hundred and seventy subjects were randomized; 232 in the tigecycline and 231 in the imipenem/cilastatin group were treated. Tigecycline was non-inferior to imipenem/cilastatin with respect to clinical response at TOC for all CE subjects, ie, the lower bound of the two-sided 95% CI (-12.0%, -1.4%) for the treatment difference in cure rate, tigecycline (89.9%) minus imipenem/cilastatin (96.6%), was >-15%. As non-inferiority was concluded in the CE population, superiority of tigecycline over imipenem/cilastatin and superiority of imipenem/cilastatin over tigecycline were tested on the CE and the modified intent-to-treat (mITT) populations according to pre-specified statistical criteria, and neither could be demonstrated (the cure rate was 82.8% vs 88.7%, difference -6.0% [-12.8%, 0.8%], for the mITT population). The subject-level microbiological response rate at TOC for the microbiologically evaluable population was 88.0% (110/125) vs 95.3% (102/107, difference -7.3% [-15.2%, 0.5%]). Nausea, drug ineffectiveness, postoperative wound infection, vomiting, and pyrexia were the most common adverse events in tigecycline-treated subjects; pyrexia, nausea, vomiting, and increased alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels were most common in imipenem/cilastatin-treated subjects; none were unanticipated.

conclusionTigecycline was non-inferior to imipenem/cilastatin in treating hospitalized adult patients with cIAI. Superiority of tigecycline over imipenem/cilastatin or imipenem/cilastatin over tigecycline could not be demonstrated. Safety was consistent with the known profile for tigecycline. CLINICALTRIALSGOV IDENTIFIER: NCT01721408.

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complicated intra-abdominal infectionsimipenem/cilastatinnon-inferioritytigecycline

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