Conditions: Hepatitis C
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 95
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
A study to evaluate how effective different levels of Vaniprevir (MK-7009), when administered with Pegylated-Interferon (Peg-IFN) and Ribavirin, are at achieving rapid viral response (RVR) i.e., undetectable hepatitis C virus \[HCV\] viral ribonucleic acid \[RNA\] at Week 4 in participants with chronic HCV infection. The primary hypothesis was that the proportion of participants in one or more of the Vaniprevir treatment groups achieving RVR would be greater than the proportion of placebo participants achieving RVR when Vaniprevir and placebo were co-administered with Peg-IFN/Ribavirin.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants took double-blind Placebo + Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 1 to Week 4, followed by open-label Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 5 to Week 48. arm 2: Participants took double-blind Vaniprevir 300 mg twice daily (b.i.d.) + Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 1 to Week 4, followed by open-label Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 5 to Week 48. arm 3: Participants took double-blind Vaniprevir 600 mg b.i.d. + Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 1 to Week 4, followed by open-label Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 5 to Week 48. arm 4: Participants took double-blind Vaniprevir 600 mg q.d. + Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 1 to Week 4, followed by open-label Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 5 to Week 48. arm 5: Participants took double-blind Vaniprevir 800 mg q.d. + Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 1 to Week 4, followed by open-label Peg-IFN/Ribavirin from Week 5 to Week 48.

Interventions: intervention 1: Comparator: Vaniprevir intervention 2: Comparator: Pegylated-Interferon (Peg-IFN) intervention 3: Comparator: Ribavirin intervention 4: Comparator: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Vaniprevir 300 mg b.i.d., 600 mg b.i.d., 600 mg q.d., or 800 mg q.d.; duration of treatment: 28 days intervention 2: Peg-IFN 180 mcg once-weekly subcutaneous injection; duration of treatment: 48 weeks intervention 3: Ribavirin 200 mg tablet b.i.d. (dose based on body weight); duration of treatment: 48 weeks intervention 4: Matching placebo to vaniprevir; duration of treatment: 28 days

Protocol document: