A Phase 4 interventional study of Vonoprazan and Levofloxacin 500mg in Helicobacter Pylori Infection, Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastritis, sponsored by Damascus Hospital. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Syria. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-03.
Sponsored by Damascus Hospital · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy and safety of two vonoprazan-based regimens: high-dose dual therapy (vonoprazan plus a single antibiotic) versus triple therapy (vonoprazan plus two antibiotics) for the treatment of H. pylori infection).
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either regimen for 14 days. The primary outcome is eradication rate , and secondary outcomes include adverse events and treatment adherence.
Study Design: This is a prospective, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial.
Setting: multi-center conducted at Damascus hospital and Iben Al-Nfees Hospital
Participants: Adult patients aged [18-70] years with confirmed [condition, e.g., H. pylori infection by urea breath test or histology]. Exclusion criteria include prior [vonoprazan use / antibiotic allergy / pregnancy / significant comorbidity].
Interventions:
Group A (High-Dose Dual Therapy): Vonoprazan [20 mg BID] + [amoxicillin, 1000 mg three times for 14 days.
Group B :levofloxacin concomitant:
levofloxacin 500 mg daily, tinidazole 500 mg, amoxicillin 1000 mg, and esomeprazole 20 mg each twice per day for 14 days.
Outcomes:
Primary: [Eradication rate / healing rate] assessed at [4-8 weeks post-treatment].
Secondary: Incidence of adverse events (mild, moderate, severe), treatment adherence (pill count or diary), and [other outcomes like symptom improvement or cost-effectiveness].
Sample Size: [N] participants per group to achieve [80-90%] power with alpha = 0.05.
Statistical Analysis: Intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses. Categorical variables compared using chi-square or Fisher's exact test; continuous variables using t-test or Mann-Whitney U test. A p-value \< 0.05 is considered statistically significant.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Child-Pugh class
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants receive vonoprazan 20 mg twice daily (BID) plus amoxicillin 1 g three times daily (TID) for 14 days. Vonoprazan is taken before meals. Amoxicillin is taken at evenly spaced intervals (approximately every 8 hours).
Drug: Vonoprazan
(levofloxacin 500 mg daily, tinidazole 500 mg, amoxicillin 1000 mg, and esomeprazole 20 mg each twice per day for two weeks).
Drug: Levofloxacin 500mg
Oral medications dispensed at enrollment in blinded (to outcome assessor) packaging. Patients complete a daily medication diary. Adherence assessed by pill count at day 14. No dose adjustments permitted during the 14-day treatment period.
Also known as: Amoxicillin, PPI
Oral medications dispensed at enrollment in blinded (to outcome assessor) packaging. Patients complete a daily medication diary. Adherence assessed by pill count at day 14. No dose
Also known as: Tinidazole, Amoxicilline, Esomperazole
H. pylori Eradication Rate
Proportion of participants with negative H. pylori status confirmed by urea breath test (or stool antigen test) at least 4 weeks after completion of study treatment. Eradication is defined as a negative test result. Both intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses will be performed.
Time frame: two weeks/14 days
Plan to share: Yes — De-identified IPD underlying published results will be shared upon reasonable request to the corresponding author, subject to a signed data access agreement.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form, Clinical study report, Analytic code
Time frame: after ending RCT
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