Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 4:50 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 4:50 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01172418
Brief Summary:
The purpose of the present study is to determine which antibody induction regimen will result in a safer and more effective method to use with steroid avoidance in renal transplant recipients. Patients receiving either first cadaveric or non-HLA identical living donor kidney transplants will be preoperatively randomized into 2 groups.
Detailed Description:
Antibody Induction:
Group I: Our standard steroid avoidance protocol, i.e., 3 daily doses of 1 mg/kg of Thymoglobulin®, the first to be infused at surgery, accompanied by 2 doses of anti-CD25 humanized monoclonal antibody, the first also to be given at surgery, and the second 2 weeks later. (controls) Group II: A new steroid avoidance protocol in which 1 dose of 1 mg/kg of Thymoglobulin® is to be infused at surgery followed by 1 dose of alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) at 0.3 mg/kg within 24 hours. No further antibody therapy will be used.
In both groups, Prograf® maintenance therapy will be rapidly initiated (vide-infra) with a targeting dosage to 12 hour trough levels of 4 to 8 ng/ml.
In Group I, maintenance dosing Myfortic® will be targeted to 720 mg twice daily. In Group II, maintenance doses of Myfortic® will be targeted to 360 mg twice daily.
Steroids are to be given equivalently in both groups only during the first week postoperatively. The regimen consists of 500 mg/day of Solumedrol intravenously for 3 postoperative days followed by daily oral methylprednisolone or IV Solumedrol at 1 mg/kg per day, decreasing to 0.5 mg/kg per day during the remainder of the week primarily to avoid hypersensitivity reactions to the induction antibodies. No further steroid use is planned.
Study:
NCT01172418
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01172418