Post-marketing Surveillance Study of Invasive Mycosis With Posaconazole (Study P04641)

Launched by MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC · Jul 31, 2008

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Data regarding demographics, underlying disease, prior fungal infection, prior antifungal medication, invasive fungal infection signs \& symptoms, concomitant medication, posaconazole use, tolerability, safety and therapy outcome will be collected on abstracted electronic Case Report Forms.

This surveillance study was originally limited to subjects receiving posaconazole as salvage antifungal therapy as indicated. A subgroup of subjects at risk for invasive fungal infection was included for prophylactic treatment following the enlargement of the marketing authorization for NOXAFIL® (posaco...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Adult subjects with:
• • Invasive aspergillosis refractory to, or intolerant of, amphotericin B or itraconazole,
• • Fusariosis refractory to, or intolerant of, amphotericin B,
• • Chromoblastomycosis and mycetoma refractory to, or intolerant of, itraconazole,
• • Coccidiomycosis refractory to, or intolerant of, amphotericin B, itraconazole or fluconazole.
• • Subjects receiving remission-induction chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) expected to result in prolonged neutropenia and who are at high risk for developing invasive fungal infections.
• • Hematopoietic stem-cell transplant (HSCT) recipients who are undergoing high-dose immunosuppressive therapy for Graft-versus-host disease and who are at high risk for developing invasive fungal infections.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Comedication of the participant with ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, terfenadine, astemizole, cisapride, pimozide, halofantrine, or chinidine.