NCT05144399

Accelerated Treatment of Endocarditis

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 475 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Herlev Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Existing guidelines recommend a duration of antibiotic treatment of endocarditis of 4-6 weeks one or more types of intravenously administered antibiotics. The long hospitalization increases several risks for the patient, including mental strain and increased loss of function. Furthermore, it poses a significant financial burden on the health systems. Current guidelines fail to use available clinical and paraclinical, data collected from patients (echo, temperature, CRP, leukocytes, procalcitonin etc.) to determine duration of treatment. A strategy including these data in treatment algorithms ensures an individualized treatment, targeting the individual patient's course and response to treatment. Thus, the purpose of this open-label, prospective, non-inferiority, RCT study is to investigate the safety and effectiveness of shortening treatment of endocarditis based on the individual patient's initial treatment response, sampling 475 patients, approx. 125 patients with each type of bacteria (Streptococci; Enterococcus faecalis; Staphylococcus aureus).

Conditions

• Endocarditis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Accelerated antibiotic treatment	E. faecalis uncomplicated: 4 weeks. E. faecalis complicated: 4 weeks. S. aureus uncomplicated: 2 weeks. S. aureus complicated: 4 weeks. Streptococci spp. NVE: 2 weeks. Streptococci spp. PVE or abscess: 3 weeks. Subsequent to cardiac surgery with a negative valve culture (organism NOT grown in laboratory from valve): Minimum 1 week after surgery regardless of previous antibiotic treatment received. Subsequent to cardiac surgery with a positive valve culture (organism grown in laboratory from valve): treatment will continue with the start date of antibiotics changed to the date of surgery. Complicated IE defined as patients with abscess, embolic event, surgically treated IE, and/or PVE. NVE: native valve endocarditis, PVE: prosthetic valve endocarditis.
OTHER	Standard treatment length	E. faecalis uncomplicated: 6 weeks. E. faecalis complicated: 6 weeks. S. aureus uncomplicated: 4 weeks. S. aureus complicated: 6 weeks. Streptococci spp. NVE: 4 weeks. Streptococci spp. PVE or abscess: 6 weeks. Subsequent to cardiac surgery with a negative valve culture (organism NOT grown in laboratory from valve): Minimum 2 weeks after surgery regardless of previous antibiotic treatment received. Subsequent to cardiac surgery with a positive valve culture (organism grown in laboratory from valve): treatment will continue with the start date of antibiotics changed to the date of surgery. Complicated IE defined as patients with abscess, embolic event, surgically treated IE, and/or PVE. NVE: native valve endocarditis, PVE: prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2026-12-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2021-12-03
• Last updated: 2024-01-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark