Kidney Transplants in Hepatitis C Negative Recipients With Hepatitis C Viremic Donors

Summary

In this study, individuals without hepatitis C infection who are on the kidney transplant waitlist will receive a kidney from a deceased donor with hepatitis C infection and will be treated for hepatitis C at the same time. Treatment will include glecaprevir 300 mg / pibrentasvir 120 mg (G-P) administered on-call to the operating room for the renal transplant procedure and continued for 2 weeks post-renal transplant.

Timeline

Start

2020-11-20

Primary completion

2023-11-28

Completion

2023-12-01

Publications

• Results Durand CM, Barnaba B, Yu S, Brown DM, Chattergoon MA, Bair N, Naqvi FF, Sulkowski M, Segev DL, Desai NM. Four-Week Direct-Acting Antiviral Prophylaxis for Kidney Transplantation From Hepatitis C-Viremic Donors to Hepatitis C-Negative Recipients: An Open-Label Nonrandomized Study. Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jan;174(1):137-138. doi: 10.7326/M20-1468. Epub 2020 Sep 8. No abstract available.

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