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CIRTEN-Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipients

A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Envarsus XR in Kidney Pancreas Transplantation, sponsored by University of Wisconsin, Madison. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-29.

Sponsored by University of Wisconsin, Madison · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2019; still recruiting 7 years 8 months later.
Updated Oct 29, 2026Primary completion movedStudy completion movedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase II/III, Single-center, Prospective, Open-label, Single Arm Study of 20 Simultaneous Kidney Pancreas recipients who received a transplant at least 3 months, but no more than 5 years prior, with a history of tremors following transplantation.

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Accrual objective: Enrollment of 2-3 participants per month and all participants within an 18 month period. With minimum of 1 year follow-up post-conversion, we anticipate the entire study would be completed within 2 ½ years.

Study design: This is a Phase II/III, Single-center, Prospective, Open-label, Single Arm Study of 20 Simultaneous Kidney Pancreas recipients who received a transplant at least 3 months, but no more than 5 years prior, with a history of tremors following transplantation.

Study duration: There will be a minimum of 1 year follow-up post-conversion, and it is expected that the entire study would be completed within 2 ½ years.

Study aims:

  • Determine if EnvarsusXR® reduces tremor severity compared to IR tacrolimus
  • Determine if EnvarsusXR® improves renal function or glycemic control compared to IR tacrolimus
  • Compare the efficacy of EnvarsusXR® by comparing the outcomes (patient, pancreas graft and kidney graft survival) of patients treated with Envarsus XR to those of contemporary and historical controls at our center treated with IR tacrolimus, with the goal of showing non-inferiority.
  • Compare insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity by defined measures post conversion between T1D and T2D recipients.

Primary Endpoint:

  1. Improvement in patient and physician-assessed degree of tremors based on FTM (Fahn-Tolosa-Martin Tremor Rating Scale) and QUEST (Quality of Life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire) scoring tools
  2. Scores on Quality of Life in Essential Tremor and Modified Transplant Symptom Occurrence and Symptom Distress Scale (MTSOSD) Questionnaires

Secondary Endpoints:

  1. Renal function - eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) and serum creatinine
  2. Glycemic control - AUC by MMTT, fasting BG, fasting C-peptide, calculated C-peptide/glucose ratio, calculated 20/(fasting Cpeptide x fasting BG) as a measure of insulin resistance, calculated HOMA-IR (fasting insulin x fasting BG)/22.5 as a measure of insulin sensitivity/resistance, calculated BETA-2 score to sensitive estimate beta cell function, and HbA1c.
  3. Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate doses as well as TAC and MPA levels
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Conditions studied

  • Kidney Pancreas Transplantation

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Keywords

  • Tremors
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In context

Tremor

158 studies on the registry are indexed under Tremor; 44 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 33 across 109 interventional studies indexed under Tremor.

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Lead sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison is the lead sponsor of 1,188 studies on the registry; 181 are open to participants now.

Of its 157 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 118 (75%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Adult, 18-70 years of age
  • Participant must be able to understand and provide consent
  • History of Diabetes Type 1 or Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Type 2 with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  • Recipient of a Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney (SPK) transplant, 3- 60 months prior to screening, per Principal Investigator's discretion.
  • Have a history of tremors following transplantation
  • Stable pancreas allograft function as evidenced by no requirement of exogenous insulin or oral anti-diabetic agents and stable pancreatic enzymes
  • Stable kidney allograft function
  • Currently taking Immediate-Release (IR) tacrolimus
  • Women of (WOCP) must have a negative pregnancy test at the time of study entry

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Currently maintained on an extended-release tacrolimus regimen
  • Previous history of tremors prior to transplantation
  • Solitary pancreas transplant recipients
  • History of solid organ transplant other than a kidney or pancreas
  • Uncontrolled concomitant infection at the discretion of the investigator
  • Presence of Donor Specific Antibodies
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2 / Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
20 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Envarsus XR

    Envarsus XR (extended release) will be administered orally, once-daily, for 6 months.

    Drug: Envarsus XR

Interventions

  • The Envarsus XR® drug will be administered to study participants once daily, orally. The dosage can be 0.75 mg, 1 mg or 4 mg. The tacrolimus whole blood trough concentrations will be monitored and titrate Envarsus XR® dosage to achieve target whole blood trough concentration.

    Also known as: tacrolimus

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in patient and physician-assessed degree of tremors based on Fahn-Tolosa-Marin Tremor Rating Scale

    FTM-TRS will be used as a tool for essential tremor scoring. (0: no tremor, 1: barely perceptible tremor, 2: \< 2 cm, 3: 2-4 cm, and 4: \> 4 cm).

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  2. Change in patient and physician-assessed degree of tremors based on Quality of Life in Essential Tremor (QUEST) Questionnaire

    QUEST Questionnaire, a scoring tool will be used to measure the quality of life among patients with Essential Tremor. It consists of 30 items which are rated on a five-point scale (score 0-4), corresponding to the frequency (never, rarely, sometimes, frequently, always) with which tremor was perceived to affect a function or to be associated with various feelings and attitudes. A few items (e.g. 'I had to quit my job because of tremor') could only be answered at the extremes (yes/no; true/false), and these were scored either 0 or 4.

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  3. Scores on Quality of Life in Essential Tremor Questionnaires

    Use QUEST (Quality of Life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire) scoring tool

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  4. Scores on Modified Transplant Symptom Occurrence and Symptom Distress Scale (MTSOSD) Questionnaire

    MTSOSD Questionnaire scores will be used to assess the presence and distress of side effects associated with the use of immunosuppressive drugs after transplantation.

    Time frame: Over 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Renal function by eGFR (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate)

    Change between baseline and post-conversion as measured by eGFR

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  2. Renal function by serum creatinine

    Change between baseline and post-conversion as measured by serum creatinine

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  3. Comparable or improved glycemic control as measured by mixed meal tolerance test

    Change between baseline and post-conversion

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  4. Comparable or improved glycemic control as measured by HbA1c

    Change between baseline and post-conversion

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  5. Tacrolimus doses and levels

    Change between baseline and post-conversion

    Time frame: Over 6 months

  6. Mycophenolate doses and levels

    Change between baseline and post-conversion

    Time frame: Over 6 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Langone A, Steinberg SM, Gedaly R, Chan LK, Shah T, Sethi KD, Nigro V, Morgan JC; STRATO Investigators. Switching STudy of Kidney TRansplant PAtients with Tremor to LCP-TacrO (STRATO): an open-label, multicenter, prospective phase 3b study. Clin Transplant. 2015 Sep;29(9):796-805. doi: 10.1111/ctr.12581. Epub 2015 Aug 6. PubMed 26113208 ↗
  • Baraldo M. Meltdose Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetics. Transplant Proc. 2016 Mar;48(2):420-3. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.02.002. PubMed 27109969 ↗
  • Kerstenetzky L, Descourouez JL, Jorgenson MR, Felix DC, Mandelbrot DA, Redfield RR, Odorico JS. A Single-Center Experience With Tacrolimus LCP (Envarsus XR) in Pancreas Transplant Recipients. Ann Pharmacother. 2018 Apr;52(4):392-396. doi: 10.1177/1060028017749076. Epub 2017 Dec 14. No abstract available. PubMed 29241340 ↗
  • Stacy MA, Elble RJ, Ondo WG, Wu SC, Hulihan J; TRS study group. Assessment of interrater and intrarater reliability of the Fahn-Tolosa-Marin Tremor Rating Scale in essential tremor. Mov Disord. 2007 Apr 30;22(6):833-8. doi: 10.1002/mds.21412. PubMed 17343274 ↗
  • Ohkura T, Shiochi H, Fujioka Y, Sumi K, Yamamoto N, Matsuzawa K, Izawa S, Kinoshita H, Ohkura H, Kato M, Taniguchi S, Yamamoto K. 20/(fasting C-peptide x fasting plasma glucose) is a simple and effective index of insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a preliminary report. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2013 Jan 22;12:21. doi: 10.1186/1475-2840-12-21. PubMed 23339473 ↗
  • Gutch M, Kumar S, Razi SM, Gupta KK, Gupta A. Assessment of insulin sensitivity/resistance. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Jan-Feb;19(1):160-4. doi: 10.4103/2230-8210.146874. PubMed 25593845 ↗
  • Forbes S, Oram RA, Smith A, Lam A, Olateju T, Imes S, Malcolm AJ, Shapiro AM, Senior PA. Validation of the BETA-2 Score: An Improved Tool to Estimate Beta Cell Function After Clinical Islet Transplantation Using a Single Fasting Blood Sample. Am J Transplant. 2016 Sep;16(9):2704-13. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13807. Epub 2016 Apr 21. PubMed 27017888 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedDate before it movedWhere the date was before it moved

Started Feb 2019 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 106 months after the start.

Since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026, the dates moved once, on Oct 29, 2026: primary completion Dec 2026 → Dec 2027 and completion Dec 2026 → Dec 2027.

Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 16, 2018
First posted
Dec 7, 2018
StartActual
Feb 27, 2019
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2027was Dec 2026
CompletionEst.
Dec 2027was Dec 2026
Last update
Oct 29, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Primary completion
Dec 2026→Dec 2027
Oct 29, 2026
Study completion
Dec 2026→Dec 2027
Oct 29, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 29, 2026
    Primary completion Dec 2026→Dec 2027
    Study completion Dec 2026→Dec 2027
    + 2 other changes: verification date and contact details

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03769298
Collaborators
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 7, 2018
Start date
Feb 27, 2019
Primary completion
Dec 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 29, 2026

Study contacts

Jon S Odorico, MD
Contact
jon@surgery.wisc.edu
6082639903
Jon S Odorico, MD
principal investigator · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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