Eculizumab Therapy for Chronic Complement-Mediated Injury in Kidney Transplantation

Summary

This study is designed to assess the effectiveness of eculizumab in recipients of kidney transplantation with donor-specific antibodies (DSA) and worsening kidney function and to assess if eculizumab improves endothelial cell injury in the kidney. The investigators hypothesize that complement inhibition with eculizumab will reduce allograft injury, resulting from less complement-mediated injury of endothelial cells and less endothelial cell activation.

Timeline

Start

2011-03

Primary completion

2015-02

Completion

2015-02

Publications

• Background Terasaki PI, Ozawa M. Predicting kidney graft failure by HLA antibodies: a prospective trial. Am J Transplant. 2004 Mar;4(3):438-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00360.x.
• Background Worthington JE, McEwen A, McWilliam LJ, Picton ML, Martin S. Association between C4d staining in renal transplant biopsies, production of donor-specific HLA antibodies, and graft outcome. Transplantation. 2007 Feb 27;83(4):398-403. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000251430.11723.b6.
• Background Al-Lamki RS, Bradley JR, Pober JS. Endothelial cells in allograft rejection. Transplantation. 2008 Nov 27;86(10):1340-8. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181891d8b.
• Background Brodsky RA, Young NS, Antonioli E, Risitano AM, Schrezenmeier H, Schubert J, Gaya A, Coyle L, de Castro C, Fu CL, Maciejewski JP, Bessler M, Kroon HA, Rother RP, Hillmen P. Multicenter phase 3 study of the complement inhibitor eculizumab for the treatment of patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Blood. 2008 Feb 15;111(4):1840-7. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-06-094136. Epub 2007 Nov 30.
• Background Davin JC, Gracchi V, Bouts A, Groothoff J, Strain L, Goodship T. Maintenance of kidney function following treatment with eculizumab and discontinuation of plasma exchange after a third kidney transplant for atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with a CFH mutation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2010 Apr;55(4):708-11. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.08.011. Epub 2009 Oct 25.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.