Study to Evaluate Effect of Everolimus in Progression of Graft Vascular Illness on Patients With Heart Transplant (EVEROSTAT)

Fundacion Investigacion y Desarrollo

Status and phase

Unknown

Phase 4

Conditions

Cardiac Transplant

Treatments

Drug: everolimus

Drug: azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00695344

EVEROSTAT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if there is a significantly less incidence of major clinical events due to graft vascular illness in recipients of a cardiac transplant on treatment with an immunosuppressive combination, which includes Everolimus, compared to those that continue the previously used immunosuppressive treatment.

Full description

This is a prospective, randomized, multicentre, open and controlled study, to evaluate the efficacy and safety of everolimus combined with cyclosporin for microemulsion and steroids according to medical judgement, opposite to the usual therapy which the patient already has received (typically: ciclosporin + azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil + steroids according to the judgement of the doctor) for patients receiving a cardiac orthotopic transplant since at least 12 months. The patients will be randomized in a 2:1 proportion (everolimus:control), in order to make it possible for the majority of patients to receive the potentially active treatment in a lethal illness for which there is not efficient known treatment up to date.

The study duration will be 2 years of follow-up for each patient. At the end of this period, the patients will be offered the possibility to maintain the immunosuppressive treatment to which they have been assigned, and periodic revisions will be made each 3-6 months.

The two treatment groups are:

Group I - Everolimus twice a day v.o. + cyclosporin for microemulsion in reduced doses +/- steroids.

Group II - Cyclosporin for microemulsion + azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil +/- steroids (the same administration schedule and medication which the patient received earlier).

Enrollment

52 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients suffering a heart transplantation at least 12 months before the inclusion.
Patients with significant graft vascular cardiac illness.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who received more than one solid organ.
Hypersensibility to everolimus.
Patients with expected surviving less than 6 months.
Analytic abnormality significant (platelets < 70.000 plat./mm3, WBC<4.000./mm3, creatinine > 2,5 mg/dl)
Neoplasm and/or severe systemic illness.
Mental significant illness.
Patients who have received sirolimus or everolimus in any moment after transplant.
Pregnant or lactating woman.