- Patients with uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection (requiring parenteral antibiotics at the time of registration), cardiac disease NYHA class III or IV, unstable angina pectoris, unstable cardiac arrhythmia or tachycardia (heart rate >= 100 beats per minute), poorly controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure >= 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure >= 90 mmHg)