Gengraf Conversion Study in Stable Renal Allograft Transplant Recipients

Penang Hospital, Malaysia

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: End Stage Renal Failure

Treatments: Drug: Gengraf® capsule containing 25mg or 100mg cyclosporine; Drug: Neoral

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01990118

15.041

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to establish the therapeutic equivalence of Gengraf® with the standard treatment Neoral® for a treatment period of 6 months in stable renal allograft transplant recipients with respect to drug levels, dosage, and acute graft rejection and other adverse events.

Full description

The introduction of cyclosporine (CsA) into clinical practice resulted in improvements in acute renal allograft rejection rate and graft survival in renal transplant patients. Gengraf a microemulsion formulation of CsA though granted an AB-rated equivalent to Neoral, because of concerns over the use of generic drugs in transplantation, we undertook this study to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gengraf.

We conducted a multicenter, randomized, open labeled study to establish the equivalence between Gengraf and Neoral in stable renal transplant recipients for a treatment period of 6 months. 6 months post transplant patients with stable graft function and receiving a stable dose of neoral were recruited into the study. Eligible patients were randomly assigned to remain on Neoral or convert to an equal milligram-for-milligram dose of Gengraf. The primary end-point was serum creatinine at 26 weeks.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Written informed consent obtained from patient or parents/guardian.
2. Patients who are more than 6 months post transplant
3. Stable graft function i.e. serum creatinine less than 300 umol/l
4. Patients currently on a stable dose of capsule Neoral within last one month

Exclusion criteria

1. Multiple organ transplantation
2. Pregnant or nursing woman, or women of childbearing potential without an effective method of birth control. Effective birth control methods are oral contraception, Norplant, surgical sterilization, Intra Uterine Device or diaphragms in conjunction with spermicidal foam and condom on the male partner.
3. Participation in any drug trial in which the patient received an investigational drug within 30 days preceding the screening phase of this study.
4. Those persons directly involved in the conduct of the study.
5. Active infection at the time of screening for enrollment into trial.
6. Acute graft rejection within the past 3 months
7. Mentally unstable or history of mental diseases
8. History of drug or alcohol abuse within the past 2 years.
9. History of non-compliance to medical regimen and patients who are unwilling or unable to comply with the protocol.
10. Decompensated liver disease
11. Any serious medical conditions or disability, which in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with treatment or assessment or preclude completion of this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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106 participants in 2 patient groups

Neoral

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients who continued to be treated with the drug Neoral.

Treatment:

Drug: Neoral

Gengraf arm

Experimental group

Description:

Patients were randomly selected to be converted to 'Gengraf® capsule containing 25mg or 100mg cyclosporine'

Treatment:

Drug: Gengraf® capsule containing 25mg or 100mg cyclosporine