Status:

COMPLETED

Pharmacokinetics of LCP-Tacro™ Once Daily and Prograf® Twice A Day in Adult De Novo Liver Transplant Patients

Lead Sponsor:

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals

Collaborating Sponsors:

CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services

Aptuit

Conditions:

Liver Failure

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the pharmacokinetics (PK, measuring the amount of medication in blood samples) and safety of a new medicine, LCP-Tacro™ tablets, and Prograf® capsules, a dr...

Detailed Description

This was a randomized, parallel-group, open-label, multicenter study in adult de novo liver transplant patients to demonstrate the pharmacokinetics and safety of once-daily treatment of LCP-Tacro tabl...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult men and women at least 18 years of age who are recipients of a liver transplant from a deceased donor with a Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score at the time of transplantation of ≤ 30 who are able to give informed consent for participation

Exclusion

  • Recipient of any transplanted organ other than a liver
  • Recipients of a liver from a non-heart beating donor
  • Recipients of a liver from an ABO incompatible donor
  • Recipients of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant
  • Patients with a white blood cell count ≤ 2.8 x 109/L unless the absolute neutrophil count (ANC) is \> 1.0 x 109/L
  • Patients who fail a drugs of abuse screen in the pre-transplant evaluation
  • Patients unable to swallow study medication
  • Patients incapable of understanding the purposes and risks of the study, who cannot give written informed consent, or who are unwilling to comply with the study protocol
  • Pregnant or nursing women (women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within seven days prior to receiving study medication)
  • Patients with reproductive potential who are unwilling/unable to use a double barrier method of contraception throughout the duration of the study
  • Patients who were treated with any other investigational agent in the 30 days prior to enrollment
  • Patients seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Patients with a current malignancy or a history of malignancy (within the past 5 years), except basal or non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has been treated successfully, or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that meet the Milan Criteria for liver transplantation
  • Patients with uncontrolled concomitant infection, a systemic infection requiring treatment, or any other unstable medical condition that could interfere with the study objectives
  • Patients with severe diarrhea, vomiting, active peptic ulcer or gastrointestinal disorder that may affect the absorption of tacrolimus
  • Patients with a known hypersensitivity to tacrolimus
  • Patients with any form of current substance abuse, psychiatric disorder or a condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator, may invalidate communication with the Investigator
  • Randomization to one of two treatment groups will be done post transplantation provided that the patient fulfills the following additional criteria:
  • Patient is able to receive their first dose of randomized study drug orally within 72 hours after the transplant surgery (graft reperfusion)
  • Patient was NOT given intravenous tacrolimus prior to their first oral dose of study medication
  • Recipient of a liver with a cold ischemia time of ≤ 10 hours

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2008

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

58 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00772148

Start Date

October 1 2008

End Date

May 1 2010

Last Update

June 25 2015

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LifeLink Healthcare Institute

Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606