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Trial reportClinical transplantation2025

A Five-Year Prospective, Randomized, Open-Label Study of Standard-Dose Versus Low-Dose Prolonged-Release Tacrolimus With or Without Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor or Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Post Kidney Transplantation.

Patricia M Campbell, Marcelo Cantarovich, Azim Gangji, Isabelle Houde, Anthony M Jevnikar, Felix-Mauricio Monroy-Cuadros, Peter W Nickerson, Michel R Pâquet, G V Ramesh Prasad, Lynne Senécal and 3 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled TrialMulticenter StudyClinical Trial, Phase III
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Trial report in Clinical transplantation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00933231 (A Comparison of Effects of Standard Dose vs. Low Dose Advagraf® With IL-2 Receptor Antibody Induction, MMF and Steroids, With or Without ACEi/ARB - Based Antihypertensive Therapy on Renal Allograft Histology, Function, and Immune Response), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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A Comparison of Effects of Standard Dose vs. Low Dose Advagraf® With IL-2 Receptor Antibody Induction, MMF and Steroids, With or Without ACEi/ARB - Based Antihypertensive Therapy on Renal Allograft Histology, Function, and Immune Response

TypeinterventionalSponsorAstellas Pharma IncRan2009 to 2018Enrolled281ConditionsKidney TransplantationArmstacrolimus, Simulect, Cellcept, Corticosteroids, Ramipril
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13 authors.

Patricia M CampbellDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marcelo CantarovichDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4766-3333
Azim GangjiDepartment of Medicine, St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Isabelle HoudeDepartment of Medicine, L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
Anthony M JevnikarDepartment of Internal Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
Felix-Mauricio Monroy-CuadrosDivision of Transplant Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Peter W NickersonDepartment of Internal Medicine and Immunology, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Michel R PâquetDivision of Nephrology, Hôpital Notre-Dame du CHUM, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
G V Ramesh PrasadDivision of Nephrology, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lynne SenécalDepartment of Medicine, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Jean-Luc WolffDepartment of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Jason J SchwartzMedical Affairs, Astellas Pharma Global Development, Northbrook, Illinois, USA.
David N RushDepartment of Internal Medicine and Immunology, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3495-6628

Funding

Astellas Pharma Canada, IncHong Chen, McDougall Scientific Ltd
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionNovel approaches to improve long-term outcomes in kidney transplant recipients are required. Here, we present the 5-year data from a multicenter, prospective, Phase 3b trial evaluating treatment outcomes with standard (STD) or low (LOW) dose prolonged-release tacrolimus (TAC) combined with ACEi/ARB or other antihypertensive therapy (OAHT) in Canadian kidney transplant recipients.

methodsAdult de novo kidney transplant recipients were randomized 2 × 2 to STD or LOW dose TAC and ACEi/ARB or OAHT. Patients had received a first or second transplant from a living or deceased donor and had ≥ 1 human leukocyte antigen mismatch with their donor.

resultsThere were 281 patients from 13 sites across Canada. Overall patient survival was 95.7% and was comparable between groups. Graft survival at study end was 89.7% in the LOW+OAHT group and 94.4%-97.1% in the other groups and BPAR, and Class II de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA) were higher in the LOW+OAHT group than in the other groups. However, these differences were not statistically significant. Graft function, blood pressure (BP), and proteinuria were similar between the groups; however, between 2 and 5 years there was a 2-fold or greater increase in the use of ACEi/ARB in patients randomized initially to OAHT, mostly because of hypertension and proteinuria. There were no unexpected safety findings.

conclusionPatients randomized to LOW TAC with renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockade had similar outcomes at 5 years as patients treated with STD TAC with or without RAS blockade, whereas those randomized to LOW TAC without RAS blockade showed a non-significant trend towards more rejections and dnDSA

trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00933231.

Indexed as

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin Receptor AntagonistsKidney TransplantationTacrolimusAdultDelayed-Action PreparationsDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleFollow-Up StudiesGraft RejectionGraft SurvivalHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsKidney Failure, ChronicMaleAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme InhibitorsAngiotensin Receptor AntagonistsDelayed-Action PreparationsImmunosuppressive AgentsTacrolimusclinical research/practicegraft survivalhypertension/antihypertensive treatmentimmunosuppressant‐calcineurin inhibitor: tacrolimusimmunosuppression/immune modulationinterstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophykidney transplantation/nephrologypatient survival

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PMID39739990
PMCPMC11683858

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