Clinical trial NCT03315052: Budesonide for Immunosuppression After Liver Transplantation to Reduce Side Effects
Official title: Budesonide in Liver Transplantation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Acute Cellular Graft Rejection
Liver Transplant Rejection
Keywords: Graft loss
Renal failure
Infection
Diabetes
Hypertension
Lead sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-10-19
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Comparison of standard immunosuppression to immunosuppression incorporating budesonide in place of prednisone
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Our hypothesis is that budesonide will provide effective hepatic ISP that will replace prednisone and allow lower systemic drug levels of FK, thus reducing the steroid- and calcineurin-associated complications often observed in the OLT population. This study is intended to investigate the therapeutic potential of this ISP combination.

Detailed description: This study will be a randomized, open-label non-inferiority trial to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of budesonide in combination with low-dose FK and standard-dose MMF as post-OLT ISP in comparison to standard ISP (S-ISP). Subjects will include OLT patients age 18 years and older receiving their first single-organ living- or deceased-donor liver transplant. Subjects must have post-operative recovery of graft function and be able to take oral medications before beginning treatment according to the study protocol.

Subjects will be randomized to receive either (1) investigational oral ISP including budesonide 9mg by mouth in three daily divided doses, FK with an initial target trough level of no greater than 5-6ng/mL, and MMF (I-ISP); or (2) S-ISP including prednisone, calcineurin antagonist, and MMF. After randomization, subjects will be followed for a total of 52 weeks and assessed for adequacy of graft function, and complications of therapy, particularly ACR

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: Adult patients age 18 years or older who undergo initial single-organ living- or deceased-donor liver-transplant surgery. Research participants are required to have satisfactory post-operative recovery of graft function and no post-operative renal-replacement therapy prior to starting medication according to protocol. They must also be able to take oral medications.

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Exclusion Criteria: Patients will be excluded from the study if they are: (1) undergoing retransplantation; (2) have fulminant hepatic failure as an indication for liver transplantation; (3) have surgical complication(s) potentially affecting post-operative graft function (i.e., hepatic artery thrombosis); or have delayed initial recovery of graft function (primary non-function) requiring non-standard induction therapy. Furthermore, patients with a contraindication to budesonide (i.e., hypersensitivity) will not be included in the study

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Acute cellular rejection (ACR)
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Tacrolimus trough levels
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Diabetes
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Worsening kidney function
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Hyptertension
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Graft survival
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Patient survival
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Infection
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
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References:
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