Miltefosine to Treat Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Bolivia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is typically treated with the parenteral product pentavalent antimony. Miltefosine is an oral agent shown to be active for mucosal leishmaniasis due to L braziliensis in Bolivia and cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L panamensis in Colombia. This trial is intended to evaluate miltefosine for cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L braziliensis in Bolivia. Patients will be randomly assigned to miltefosine or pentavalent antimony. Standard dose regimens will be used for both drugs.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: AB Foundation
• Treatments: Miltefosine

Criteria

Presentation: At least 1 lesion must be ulcerative. Parasitology: Parasitological confirmation of 1 lesion will be made by visualization or culture of leishmania from the biopsy or aspirate of the lesion.

Previous RX: No specific or putatively specific therapy for leishmaniasis (Sb, pentamidine, amphotericin B, imidazoles, allopurinol)

Other diseases: No concomitant diseases by history and by approximately normal complete blood counts (white blood count, hemoglobin, platelet count), values of liver transaminases (SGOT) and kidney function tests (creatinine).