Conditions: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
Keywords: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Antiviral Lung Transplant
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 61
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of presatovir on nasal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) viral load in RSV-positive lung transplant (LT) recipients with acute respiratory symptoms.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Presatovir 200 mg (4 x 50 mg) on Day 1, followed by 100 mg (2 x 50 mg) from Day 2 to Day 14 arm 2: Placebo tablets for a total of 14 days

Interventions: intervention 1: Presatovir intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Tablets administered orally or via nasogastric (NG) tube once daily intervention 2: Tablets administered orally or via NG tube once daily

Protocol document:
SAP_002.pdf: 


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