The Efficacy of Susceptibility Test -Driven Sequential Therapy as the Third Line Therapy for Refractory Helicobacter Pylori Infection

Summary

Background: Helicobacter pylori infection has been shown to be associated with the development of gastric cancer and peptic ulcer diseases. Eradication of H. pylori infection could reduce the occurence or recurrence of these diseases. However, it was estimated that 15-20% of patients would fail from first line standard eradication therapy and need second line rescue therapy. About 15-30% of patient would fail from second line therapy and need to be rescued with third line therapy. The commonly used salvage regimens include (1) Bismuth based quadruple therapy (combined with ranitidine or PPI plus two antibiotics) (2) Levofloxacin or moxifloxacin or rifabutin based triple therapy. However, Bismuth is not available in many countries and the administration method is complex. Its usage is limited by the high pill number and low compliance rate. In recent years, the concept of sequential therapy has been advocated in the treatment of H. pylori infection. The regimen includes a PPI plus amoxicillin for five days, followed by a PPI plus clarithromycin and metronidazole for another five days. The eradication rate in the first line treatment of sequential therapy had been reported to be as high as 90%. More importantly, it has been demonstrated that the eradication rate among patients with clarithromycin-resistant strains could be as high as 89%. According to the Maastricht III consensus meeting, it was recommended that susceptibility test should be done for patients who failed two treatments. Therefore, we aimed to assess the efficacy of susceptibility test driven sequential therapy as the third line therapy for those who fail from two standard eradication therapies.

Methods: This will be a multi-center, open labeled pilot study

1. Patients:

* Open labeled, non-comparative pilot study
2. Testing for H. pylori infection:

* Before salvage treatment:

either (1) any two positive of CLO test, histology, and culture or (2) a positive C13-UBT will be considered as failure of previous eradication treatment EGD with gastric biopsy will be done for H. pylori culture and susceptibility test
* After salvage treatment: C13-UBT will be used to assess the existence of H. pylori after 2nd or 3rd line salvage therapy
3. Treatment regimens and assignment:

* D1-7: Nexium (40 mg, bid), Amolin (1 gm, bid)
* D8-14: Nexium (40 mg, bid), Flagyl (500 mg, bid) plus either one of the following according to antibiotic susceptibility test (1) Klaricid, 500 mg, bid or (2) Cravit, 250 mg, bid or (3) Tetracycline, 500 mg, bid
4. Outcome Measurement:

* Primary End Point: Eradication rate will be evaluated according to Intent-to-treat (ITT) and per-protocol (PP) analyses
* Secondary End Point: the eradication rate according to antibiotic susceptibility before salvage therapy

Conditions

• Helicobacter Pylori Infection

Interventions

DRUG

susceptibility test guided sequential therapy

susceptibility test driven sequential therapy D1- D7 Nexium ,40mg, bid Amolin, 1gm bid D8-14 Nexium ,, 40mg, bid Flagyl, 500mg, bid plus either one of the following 1. Klaricid, 500 mg, bid 2. Cravit, 250 mg, bid 3. Tetracycline, 500 mg, bid

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Taiwan University Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jyh-Ming Liou, MD · National Taiwan University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2009-04-30

Primary Completion

2012-03-31

Completion

2012-03-31

Countries

• Taiwan

Study Locations