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CompletedNCT00189735Updated Apr 17, 2008

A Study to Evaluate FK778 in Kidney Transplant Patients

A Phase 2 interventional study of FK778 in Kidney Transplantation, Renal Transplantation and Transplantation, Renal, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc. Completed at 37 sites in 12 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2008-04-17.

Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
364
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

A dose finding study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of FK778 in kidney transplant patients

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Conditions studied

  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Renal Transplantation
  • Transplantation, Renal
  • Transplantation, Kidney
  • Grafting, Kidney

Keywords

  • Treatment Efficacy
  • Treatment Effectiveness
  • Anti-rejection therapy
  • Immunosuppression
  • Antirejection
  • Malononitrilamide
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In context

Lead sponsor

Astellas Pharma Inc is the lead sponsor of 512 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

Of its 27 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 19 (70%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Patient has end stage kidney disease or needs retransplantation (loss of graft for non-immunological reasons).
  • Patient has been fully informed.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient has an immunological high risk and/or having a previous graft survival shorter than 1 year due to immunological reasons.
  • Patient has significant liver disease.
  • Cold ischemia time of the donor kidney >28 hours.
  • Patient having uncontrolled concomitant infections and/or severe diarrhoea, vomiting, active upper gastro-intestinal tract malabsorption or active peptic ulcer.
  • Patient has previously received or is receiving an organ transplant other than kidney.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double
Enrollment
364 participants (actual)

Interventions

  • DrugFK778
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of biopsy-proven acute rejection over the first 24 weeks.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Efficacy:Incidence of and time to first biopsy-proven acute rejection over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  2. Incidence of and time to first corticosteroid-resistant acute rejections over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  3. Incidence of and time to first acute rejection by signs and symptoms over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  4. Severity of biopsy-proven acute rejections (Banff criteria) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  5. Frequency of treatment failure (as defined below) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  6. Renal function as measured by serum creatinine concentrations and calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft formula) over the first 24 weeks and after 1 year

  7. Chronic allograft dysfunction assessed by chronic allograft damage index (CADI) after 24 weeks of transplantation.

  8. Safety first 24 weeks: Patient survival

  9. Graft survival

  10. Incidence of adverse events

  11. Routine safety laboratory parameters

  12. Haemoglobin values at weeks two to six

  13. Leukocytes at weeks two to six

  14. Thrombocytes at weeks two to six

  15. Bilirubin at weeks two to six

  16. Incidence of CMV viraemia

  17. Incidence of Diarrhoea, Gastroenteritis and Gastritis

  18. Safety after 1 year:Incidence of adverse events

  19. Patient and graft survival

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Study locations

37 sites
  • Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
  • Brussels, 1070, Belgium
  • Brussels, 1200, Belgium
  • Leuven, 3000, Belgium
  • Praha 4, 14021, Czech Republic
  • Brest, 29 200, France
  • Creteil Cedex, 94010, France
  • Grenoble Cedex 9, France
  • Le Kremlin Bicetre Cedex, 94275, France
  • Montpellier Cedex 05, 34295, France
  • Rennes Cedex, 35003, France
  • Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, 42055, France
  • Toulouse, 31 403, France
  • Berlin, 10117, Germany
  • Berlin, 13353, Germany
  • Essen, 45122, Germany
  • Frankfurt, 60590, Germany
  • Halle/Saale, 06112, Germany
  • Munchen, 81675, Germany
  • Regensburg, 93053, Germany
  • Padova, 35128, Italy
  • Roma, 00168, Italy
  • Torino, 10126, Italy
  • Maastricht, 6202, Netherlands
  • Bydgoszcz, 85-094, Poland
  • Szczecin, 70-111, Poland
  • Barcelona, 08025, Spain
  • Barcelona, 08036, Spain
  • Barcelona, 08907, Spain
  • Cordoba, 14004, Spain
  • Madrid, 28034, Spain
  • Madrid, 28041, Spain
  • Santander, 39008, Spain
  • Valencia, 46009, Spain
  • Uppsala, 75185, Sweden
  • Zurich, 8091, Switzerland
  • Manchester, M13 9WL, United Kingdom
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 17, 2008, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00189735
Lead sponsor
Astellas Pharma Inc
Collaborators
Astellas Pharma Europe B.V.
First posted
Sep 19, 2005
Start date
Sep 2003
Primary completion
Oct 2005
Completion
Oct 2005
Last update
Apr 17, 2008

Study contacts

H. H. Neumayer
principal investigator · Universitätsklinik Charité
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