Study Status: Terminated
Recruit Status: Terminated
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: "A Prospective, Randomized, Comparative Clinical Trial of the Efficacy and Safety of Levofloxacin Versus Isoniazid in the Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection i
Brief Summary:
A multicenter, prospective, non-inferiority, randomized and open clinical trial comparing levofloxacin with isoniazid in the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in patients eligible for liver transplantation.
Patients over 18 years of age on the waiting list for liver transplantation.
Sample size: n=870 patients.
HYPOTHESIS
Levofloxacin treatment of latent tuberculosis infection, begun while on the waiting list for liver transplantation, is safer and not less effective than isoniazid treatment begun after transplantation when liver function is stable.