Stable renal transplant recipients.
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients, 18 years or older, on maintenance therapy with Neoral, MMF and steroids; 2. Informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Calculated creatinine clearance £ 20 ml/min; 2. Multi-organ recipients; 3. Patients with an (historic) PRA >60%; 4. Vascular type rejection in the past; 5. Patients with more than two acute rejection episodes in the past; 6. Third renal transplant or more; 7. Patients receiving other investigational drugs than MMF in combination with Neoral; 8. Metastatic neoplasms, post-transplant lymfoproliferative disease.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Composite of Graft function, - incidence of acute rejection episodes; 2. Graft and patient survival. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Non-immune toxicity 1. Hypertension; 2. Hyperlipedimia; 3. Gout, uric acid; 4. Magnesium; 5. Nausea, dyspepsia, diarrhea; 6. Anemia/Leukopenia/Thrombopenia; 7. Infections (clinically defined); 8. Post-transplant lympho-proliferative disease; 9. Malignancy. | — |
Contacts
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Department of Nephrology, C3-P22, P.O. Box 9600