Eplerenone in Patients Undergoing REnal Transplant (EPURE TRANSPLANT)

Summary

Assess the impact of eplerenone (initiated within 2 hours prior to patient departure to the operating room and administered for 4 days during the post-operative period) on graft function evaluated by the measurement of glomerular filtration rate at 3 months - variable strongly associated with long-term graft survival.

Timeline

Start

2016-10-19

Primary completion

2021-11-09

Completion

2031-08

Publications

• Natale P, Mooi PK, Palmer SC, Cross NB, Cooper TE, Webster AC, Masson P, Craig JC, Strippoli GF. Antihypertensive treatment for kidney transplant recipients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Jul 31;7(7):CD003598. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003598.pub3.
• Hasegawa T, Nishiwaki H, Ota E, Levack WM, Noma H. Aldosterone antagonists for people with chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Feb 15;2(2):CD013109. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013109.pub2.
• Girerd S, Frimat L, Ducloux D, Le Meur Y, Mariat C, Moulin B, Mousson C, Rieu P, Dali-Youcef N, Merckle L, Lepage X, Rossignol P, Girerd N, Jaisser F. EPURE Transplant (Eplerenone in Patients Undergoing Renal Transplant) study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2018 Oct 30;19(1):595. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2956-1.

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