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NCT01680861

Randomized, Open-Label Trial of Tacrolimus/Everolimus vs. Tacrolimus/Enteric-Coated Mycophenolate Sodium to Prevent Biopsy-Proven Acute Rejection and Chronic Allograft Injury in Adult, Primary Kidney Transplantation

Completed Phase 3 Results posted Last updated 21 October 2016
What this trial tests

Phase 3 trial testing Tacrolimus in Transplant; Failure, Kidney in 32 participants. Completed in 1 December 2014.

Timeline
1 November 2012
Primary endpoint
1 December 2014
1 December 2014

Quick facts

Lead sponsorGaetano Ciancio
PhasePhase 3
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment32
Start date1 November 2012
Primary completion1 December 2014
Estimated completion1 December 2014
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Gaetano Ciancio

Who can join

Adults 18 to 75, any sex, with Transplant; Failure, Kidney. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

What's being measured

Primary outcomes are the specific endpoints the trial is designed to prove or disprove.

Sponsor's own description

A recent therapeutic strategy following renal transplantation includes simultaneous use of reduced calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) dosing and maximized use of a non-nephrotoxic, antiproliferative drug (inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) or TOR inhibitor), with the goals of reducing/avoiding CNI nephrotoxicity, the incidence of acute rejection, and chronic allograft injury (CAI) (i.e., interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy), leading to more favorable longer-term patient and graft survival.1-7 Early corticosteroid withdrawal has also been used in the attempt to avoid well-known side effects while maintaining favorable patient and graft survival.8-10 While the investigators center and numerous other centers have also included single agent, antibody induction utilizing the lymphodepleting polyclonal antibody rabbit anti-human thymocyte globulin (ATG), nondepleting human anti-interleukin-2 receptor (CD25) monoclonal antibody daclizumab (Dac) or basiliximab, or lymphodepleting humanized anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab,11-17 evidence now suggests that an even more effective induction strategy may include the combined use of more than one induction agent (each with fewer doses than if used alone), with the goal of bringing the kidney transplant recipient even closer (through more effectively timed lymphodepletion) to an optimally immunosuppressed state, allowing further reduction in long-term maintenance drug dosing.18-25 The investigators have now successfully used dual ATG/Dac induction therapy in both kidney-alone23-24 and simultaneous kidney-pancreas (SPK) transplantation,18-20 and a recent report from the investigators center of kidney-alone and SPK recipients shows that the addition of anti-CD25 to ATG for induction therapy more effectively delays the return of peripheral blood CD25+ cells.25 In the kidney-alone recipient study 3 doses of ATG were combined with 2 doses of Dac for induction,23-24 vs. the investigators previous studies utilizing single agent induction with 7 doses of ATG or 5 doses of Dac.4,16,17 Successful combination of ATG/basiliximab as dual induction in kidney transplantation has also been reported elsewhere,21-22 along with equivalency in clinical outcomes using daclizumab vs. basiliximab.13

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