Status:

COMPLETED

Pharmacokinetics of Immunosuppressive Drugs in Heart Transplant Patients

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Limoges

Conditions:

Heart Transplant

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

The main objective is to develop pharmacokinetic methods for individual dose adjustment of the global immunosuppressive treatment (cyclosporine, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and everolimus, takin...

Detailed Description

For each heart transplant patient, 10 to 11 blood samples (5 mL each) will be collected following dosing of he immunosuppressive drugs (at T0, T20', T40', T60', T90', T2h, T3h, T4h, T6h, T8h and T10h ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patient having received of a heart transplant (exclusively) less than 2 weeks before the inclusion date or planned to receive it within days following inclusion.
  • Patient at least 18 years old, male or female.
  • Patient treated with one of the following combination : cyclosporine-mycophenolate, tacrolimus-mycophenolate or everolimus- "low-dose" cyclosporine for at least 3 days, and at least 24 hours by the oral route at the time of the first sampling day (between 7 and 15 days post-transplant).
  • Patient included or not in another study, in particular in a therapeutic trial (e.g. comparison between drug combinations).
  • Patient having given written informed consent for his/her participation to the trial.

Exclusion

  • Patients in disagreement with the present trial.
  • Patients suffering from neuro-psychic problems, making them unable to well-understand the protocol or to give a reliable consent.
  • Patients with previous heart or any other solid organ transplantation.
  • Patients with double transplantation (heart-lung, heart-kidney or heart-liver)
  • Patients still intubated and ventilated 15 days post-transplant.
  • Patients with anaemia between Day 7 and 15, as characterized by hematocrit \< 30% or haemoglobin \< 9 g/dl.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 1 2012

Estimated Enrollment :

42 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00812786

Start Date

July 1 2007

End Date

May 1 2012

Last Update

July 30 2025

Active Locations (12)

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CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

2

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, France

3

CHU de Lille

Lille, France

4

CHU de Limoges

Limoges, France