Summary

Eligibility
for people ages 18-70 (full criteria)
Healthy Volunteers
healthy people welcome
Location
at UCSF
Dates
study started
completion around
Principal Investigator
by Steven Deeks (ucsf)
Headshot of Steven Deeks
Steven Deeks

Description

Summary

HIV medicines have led to dramatic improvements in health. However, there remains a concern for potential drug toxicities, cost of drugs, and need for life-long treatment. In addition, research has found that health is not completely restored in HIV-infected patients, even if they have been taking effective HIV medicines for a long time. This may be due to direct drug-toxicity, continued replication of the virus, and/or inflammation of the body in response to the virus. Therefore, a more complete understanding of how HIV stays in the body is necessary.

Recent research has shown that one of the places that HIV can stay in the body is in lymphatic tissues such as lymph nodes (even in patients who have been taking HIV medicines for a long time). In addition, the amount of damage to the lymphatic tissues can predict how the immune system (CD4+ T cell count) will respond to therapy.

The investigators therefore propose a study in which lymph nodes from the groin area will be removed, with the goals of: 1) seeing how much HIV is in lymph nodes and 2) seeing how much damage has happened to the lymph node architecture.

Keywords

HIV, HIV persistence, Lymph node fibrosis, Lymph node biopsy, HIV negative, HIV positive

Eligibility

You can join if…

Open to people ages 18-70

  1. Able to give informed consent
  2. No contraindication to surgical procedures
  3. Palpable inguinal adenopathy at study entry
  4. For HIV seropositive subjects, meeting one of the following criteria: (1) on stable highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) with a recent undetectable viral load (< 50 copies/mL) ("HAART suppressed"), (2) antiretroviral untreated with an undetectable viral load (< 50 copies/mL) ("elite" controllers), or (3) antiretroviral untreated with a detectable viral load (> 1000 copies/mL) ("non-controllers")

You CAN'T join if...

  1. Known anemia (HIV+ males Hct<34; females Hct<32) or contraindication to donating blood
  2. Blood coagulation disorder (including bleeding tendency or problems in past with blood clots)
  3. Platelets < 50,000/mm3
  4. PTT > 2x ULN
  5. INR > 1.5
  6. Pregnant

Location

  • San Francisco General Hospital accepting new patients
    San Francisco California 94110 United States

Lead Scientist at University of California Health

  • Steven Deeks (ucsf)
    Steven G. Deeks, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is an internationally recognized expert on HIV pathogenesis and treatment.

Details

Status
accepting new patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
ID
NCT01202305
Study Type
Observational
Participants
Expecting 50 study participants
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