Grafting, Kidney, Kidney Transplantation, Renal Transplantation, Transplantation, Kidney, Transplantation, Renal
Conditions
Keywords
Treatment Efficacy, Treatment Effectiveness, Anti-rejection therapy, Immunosuppression, Antirejection, Malononitrilamide
Brief summary
A dose finding study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of FK778 in kidney transplant patients
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Patient has end stage kidney disease or needs retransplantation (loss of graft for non-immunological reasons). * Patient has been fully informed.
Exclusion criteria
* Patient has an immunological high risk and/or having a previous graft survival shorter than 1 year due to immunological reasons. * Patient has significant liver disease. * Cold ischemia time of the donor kidney \>28 hours. * Patient having uncontrolled concomitant infections and/or severe diarrhoea, vomiting, active upper gastro-intestinal tract malabsorption or active peptic ulcer. * Patient has previously received or is receiving an organ transplant other than kidney.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of biopsy-proven acute rejection over the first 24 weeks. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Incidence of and time to first corticosteroid-resistant acute rejections over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Incidence of and time to first acute rejection by signs and symptoms over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Severity of biopsy-proven acute rejections (Banff criteria) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Frequency of treatment failure (as defined below) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Renal function as measured by serum creatinine concentrations and calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft formula) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Chronic allograft dysfunction assessed by chronic allograft damage index (CADI) after 24 weeks of transplantation. | — |
| Safety first 24 weeks: Patient survival | — |
| Graft survival | — |
| Incidence of adverse events | — |
| Efficacy:Incidence of and time to first biopsy-proven acute rejection over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year | — |
| Haemoglobin values at weeks two to six | — |
| Leukocytes at weeks two to six | — |
| Thrombocytes at weeks two to six | — |
| Bilirubin at weeks two to six | — |
| Incidence of CMV viraemia | — |
| Incidence of Diarrhoea, Gastroenteritis and Gastritis | — |
| Safety after 1 year:Incidence of adverse events | — |
| Patient and graft survival | — |
| Routine safety laboratory parameters | — |
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom