Conditions: Renal Failure
Keywords: kidney transplantation renal transplantation maintenance immunosuppression tacrolimus Prevention of acute allograft rejection
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 326
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This is 2-armed parallel group, prospective, randomized, open-label, multicenter Phase 3 controlled trial to establish the efficacy and safety of conversion from maintenance immunosuppressive therapy with Prograf® capsules (tacrolimus, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., Deerfield, IL) twice daily to maintenance immunotherapy with LCP Tacro™ tablets (tacrolimus, LifeCycle Pharma A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark) once daily for the prevention of acute allograft rejection in stable adult kidney transplant patients. Patients on a stable dose of Prograf® will be randomly assigned to be converted from Prograf® twice daily to LCP Tacro™ once daily or to remain on maintenance therapy with Prograf® twice daily. Patients entering the study will be treated with assigned study drug and followed for one year for patient survival and the incidence of graft rejection or graft loss.

Detailed description:
This is 2-armed parallel group, prospective, randomized, open-label, multicenter Phase 3 controlled trial to establish the efficacy and safety of conversion from maintenance immunosuppressive therapy with Prograf capsules (tacrolimus, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., Deerfield, IL) twice daily to maintenance immunotherapy with LCP-Tacro tablets (tacrolimus, LifeCycle Pharma A/S, Horsholm, Denmark) once daily for the prevention of acute allograft rejection in stable adult make and female kidney transplant patients. Recipients of kidney transplant 3 months to 5 years before Screening and on a stable dose of Prograf will be randomly assigned to be converted from Prograf twice daily to LCP-Tacro once daily or to remain on maintenance therapy with Prograf twice daily. There will be 11 study visits in the Treatment period.

Arms:
arm 1: LCP-Tacro tablets™, once daily (LifeCycle Pharma A/S, Hoersholm DK) arm 2: Prograf® capsules, twice daily (Astellas Pharma US, Deerfield IL)

Interventions: intervention 1: LCP-Tacro intervention 2: Prograf
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: LCP-Tacro tablets will be administered orally QD, at the same time in the morning to maintain trough levels at 5-15 ng/ML. Subsequent doses will be adjusted according to whole blood tacrolimus trough levels. LCP-Tarco (tacrolimus) tablets provided in 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 2 mg, and 5 mg tablets. intervention 2: Oral prograf doses will be given BID (in the morning and evening), to maintain trough levels of 5- 15 ng/mL. Prograf capsules (tacrolimus) capsules, twice daily oral, provided in 0.5 mg, 1 mg, and 5 mg capsules.

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