ClinicalTrials.Veeva

Menu

Rapamycin Use in Calcineurin Inhibitor (CNI)-Free Immunosuppression for Stabilization/Improvement of Renal Function After Heart Transplantation

H

Heidelberg University

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 4

Conditions

Renal Failure
Heart Transplantation

Treatments

Drug: Cyclosporine discontinuation
Drug: Rapamycin medication

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry

Identifiers

NCT00123331
HD_cardio_352/2003_dengler

Details and patient eligibility

About

Clinical Problem: Renal insufficiency after heart transplantation caused by cyclosporine medication was addressed. Current therapeutic approaches include cyclosporine reduction or discontinuation. It is unclear whether discontinuation of low dose cyclosporine also has a beneficial effect, i.e. is there a threshold effect for cyclosporine nephrotoxicity?

Study Design: Heart transplant patients with a moderate degree of renal failure on low dose cyclosporine were randomized to either a) no change; or b) discontinuation of cyclosporine and initiation of rapamycin immunosuppression.

Read-Out: Renal function after 6 months; tolerability; and safety were assessed.

Full description

Clinical Problem: Renal insufficiency after heart transplantation caused by cyclosporine medication was addressed. Current therapeutic approaches include cyclosporine reduction or discontinuation. It is unclear whether discontinuation of low dose cyclosporine also has a beneficial effect, i.e. is there a threshold effect for cyclosporine nephrotoxicity?

Study Design: Heart transplant patients with a moderate degree of renal failure on low dose cyclosporine were randomized to either a) no change; or b) discontinuation of cyclosporine and initiation of rapamycin immunosuppression.

Read-Out: Renal function after 6 months; tolerability; and safety were assessed.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Heart transplantation (> 6 months post-operation)
  • Renal failure (serum creatinine stably > 1.7 mg/dl
  • Cyclosporine trough blood level < 110 ng/ml

Exclusion criteria

  • < 18 years of age
  • Rapamycin intolerability
  • Active infection
  • Pregnancy, breast feeding
  • Major elective surgery planned in study period
  • Thrombopenia < 100,000/ml

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

1

Loading...

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

Clinical trials

Find clinical trialsTrials by location
© Copyright 2026 Veeva Systems