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Joseph J. Eron, Judith Feinberg, Harold A. Kessler, Harold W. Horowitz, Mallory D. Witt, Felix F. Carpio, David A. Wheeler, Peter Ruane, Donna Mildvan, Bienvenido G. Yangco, Richard Bertz, Barry Bernstein, Martin S. King, Eugene Sun, Once-Daily versus Twice-Daily Lopinavir/Ritonavir in Antiretroviral-Naive HIV-Positive Patients: A 48-Week Randomized Clinical Trial, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 189, Issue 2, 15 January 2004, Pages 265–272, https://doi.org/10.1086/380799
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Abstract
The safety, pharmacokinetics, and antiviral activity of lopinavir, a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease inhibitor, coformulated with ritonavir as a pharmacokinetic enhancer were evaluated in 38 antiretroviral-naive patients randomized 1:1 to receive open-label lopinavir/ritonavir at a dose of 800/200 mg once daily or 400/100 mg twice daily, each in combination with stavudine and lamivudine twice daily, for 48 weeks. Over the course of 48 weeks, median predose concentrations of lopinavir exceeded the protein-binding corrected concentration required to inhibit replication of wild-type HIV by 50% in vitro by 40- and 84-fold in the once- and twice-daily groups, respectively. Predose concentrations of lopinavir were more variable in the once-daily group (mean ± SD, 3.62±3.38 μg/mL for the once-daily group and 7.13±2.93 μg/mL for the twice-daily group). At week 48, in an intent-to-treat (missing = failure) analysis, 74% of patients in the once-daily group and 79% of patients in the twice-daily group had HIV RNA levels of <50 copies/mL (P=.70). Study drug–related discontinuations occurred in 1 patient in each treatment group. Genotypic resistance testing of 4 patients with HIV RNA levels >400 copies/mL between weeks 24 and 48 demonstrated no protease inhibitor–resistance mutations