Title: 3TCABC maintains virological superiority over ZDV3TC and ZDVABC beyond 5 years in children: the PENT
13TC\ABC maintains virological superiority over
ZDV\3TC and ZDV\ABC beyond 5 years in children
the PENTA 5 trial
DM Gibb, H Green, Y Saidi, D Pillay, A
Compagnucci, L Harper, AS Walker, G
Castelli-Gattinara, M della Negra, J levy, F
Candeias, K Butler, C Feiterna-Sperline, U
Wintergerst, C Giaquinto on behalf of
Paediatric European Network for the Treatment of
AIDS (PENTA)
2Background
- Few randomised trials in untreated children
comparing different ART combinations.
The Lancet 2002 359, 733-740
3Baseline characteristics
- 126 children followed after 48 weeks
- 36 ZDV\3TC, 44 ZDV\ABC, 46 3TC\ABC
- 2 died/lost to follow-up within 2 weeks of
randomisation - 56 boys
- 46/42 white/black African
- Median age 5.4 years
- Mean HIV-1 RNA 5.1 log10 copies/ml
- Median CD4 22
- 9 prior AIDS
Due to minor imbalances in baseline
characteristics, all analyses are adjusted for
age, HIV-1 RNA and CD4 at baseline, plus
allocation to NFV or placebo
4Follow-up and clinical events
- Median follow-up 5.8 years (range 3.1 to 7.8
years) - only 18 (14) children have less than 5 years
follow-up - 6 children had new AIDS events during 702 child
years of follow-up - 4 before and 2 after 48 weeks
- No recurrent AIDS events
- 1 child died at 3 years (Hodgkins lymphoma)
- ? 94 new AIDS-free survival at 5 years in all
arms
5NRTIs to 5 years
- Proportion of child-time spent taking randomised
NRTIs was around 85 in the first 2.5 years of
the trial -
- From 2.5 to 5 years, the proportion still taking
NRTIs was lower in the ZDV groupsZDV\3TC 61ZDV
\ABC 543TC\ABC 69 - Changes in randomised NRTIs were mainly to ddI or
d4T - 3TC\ABC arm
- more time on randomised NRTIs
- exposed to fewer number of drugs
- fewer switches to 2nd line therapy
-
6ART at 5 years
- By 5 years, 50 (63/126) of children were still
taking randomised NRTIs -
7ART at 5 years
- By 5 years, 50 (63/126) of children were still
taking randomised NRTIs -
8Change in HIV-1 RNA
- p-value 0.03 0.03
0.03 0.01 0.001 - Overall strong evidence of a difference between
treatment arms (plt0.001) - No evidence this varied over time (p0.5)
-
All analyses intention-to-treat
9HIV-1 RNA suppression
lt400 copies/ml
lt50 copies/ml
- Overall strong evidence of a difference between
treatment arms (p0.003 and 0.006
respectively) - No evidence this varied over time (p0.4 and
0.1 respectively)
All analyses intention-to-treat
10Growth
Height-for-age
Weight-for-age
- Overall strong evidence of a difference between
treatment arms (p0.001 and 0.04
respectively) - Trend towards increasing benefit from 3TC\ABC
in weight-for-age (p0.09), but not for
height-for-age (p0.6) - There was no difference in mean CD4 at 5 years
(33, 30 and 33, p0.2)
All analyses intention-to-treat
11Dual NRTI
- 24 children randomised to NFV placebo
- At 5 years, 7 (29) were still taking dual NRTI
therapy - 0/7 (0) ZDV\3TC
- 3/11 (27) ZDV\ABC
- 4/6 (83) 3TC\ABC
- 4 children had had HIV-1 RNA lt400 copies/ml
throughout - 1/3 ZDV\ABC
- 3/4 3TC\ABC
- 3 children had HIV-1 RNA lt4000 copies/ml
-
12Resistance
- 16 children had 2 or more resistance tests after
baseline whilst still on randomised NRTIs,
despite continuing viral replication. - ZDV\3TC (n4)
- all developed 184V by 1 year
- then developed TAMs (41L, 67N, 70R, 210W, 215Y)
maintained 184V - ZDV\ABC (n6)
- 4 maintained wild-type virus through 3 - 4.5
years - 2 developed TAMs at 3/3.5 years (41L, 67N, 70R,
210W, 215F/Y, 219Q) - 3TC\ABC (n6)
- 4 had non-TAM mutations by year 1 (65R, 74V,
115F, 184V) - 2 maintained non-TAMs, 1 lost all mutations and 1
developed TAMs - 2 M184V only by 5 years
-
13Conclusions
- Children do well clinically and immunologically
on all regimens - very few AIDS events over 5 years
- 3TC\ABC
- Long-term sustained virological superiority
- Short-term benefits in terms of growth persist
- Lower rates of switching with detectable viral
load - Order and pattern of resistance dependent on
combination of NRTIs used - 3TC\ABC is an excellent first-line NRTI backbone
- can be taken once daily in children gt 3 years
- same small volume liquids
- fixed dose combination scored baby pill?
14Acknowledgements
- We thank all the children, families and staff
from all the centres participating in the PENTA 5
Trial - Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit,
UK A Babiker, L Buck, J Darbyshire, L Farrelly,
DM Gibb, H Green, L Harper, D Johnson, P
Kelleher, A Newberry, A Poland, G Wait, AS Walker - INSERM SC10, FranceJP Aboulker, A Compagnucci,
M Debré, V Eliette, S Girard, S Leonardo,
Y Saidi - Executive Committee for PENTA 5JP Aboulker, A
Babiker, A Compagnucci, J Darbyshire, M Debré, M
Gersten (Agouron), C Giaquinto (chairperson), DM
Gibb, W Snowdon (GlaxoSmithKline)
15Acknowledgements
- Participating Centres pharmacists, ?virologists
- Belgium Hôpital Saint Pierre, Brussels J Levy,
M Hainaut, A Peltier, S Carlier, G Zissis?.
Brazil Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas,
São Paolo M Della Negra, W. Queiroz Fleury
Laboratories, São PaoloLP Feitosa?, D Oliveira?. - France Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Nantes
F Mechinaud, V Reliquet, F Ballerau, A
Lepelletier, S Billaudel?, V Ferre?. Germany
Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I Grosch-Wörner, R Weigel, K Seel, C
Feiterna-Sperling, D Ohlendorf, G Riße, C
Müller? Universitäts-Kinderklinik Düsseldorf V
Wahn, T Niehues, J Ndagijimana, G Horneff, S
Gudowius, N Vente? Universitäts-Kinderklinik
Eppendorf, Hamburg R Ganschow, G Englert.
Universitat zu Köln T Simon, R Vossen, H
Pfister? Universitäts-kinderkliniken, Munich U
Wintergerst, G Notheis, G Strotmann, S Schlieben.
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F Goggins, S Moriarty, M Byrne .Italy
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L Galli, M de Martino Istituto G Gaslini,
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