Eplerenone in Patients Undergoing REnal Transplant (EPURE TRANSPLANT) (EPURE)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02490904 |
Recruitment Status :
Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 7, 2015
Last Update Posted : November 14, 2022
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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End-stage Renal Disease | Drug: Eplerenone Drug: Placebo | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 132 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Double-blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Blockade With Eplerenone After Renal Transplantation : Effect on Graft Function at 3 Months. |
Actual Study Start Date : | October 19, 2016 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 9, 2021 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | August 2031 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Eplerenone group
Eplerenone administration within 2 hours prior to patient departure to the operating room and for 4 days after kidney transplantation.
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Drug: Eplerenone
Double-blinded Eplerenone administered for 4 days at 25mg every 12 hours |
Placebo Comparator: Placebo group
Placebo administration within 2 hours prior to patient departure to the operatingroom and for 4 days after kidney transplantation
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Drug: Placebo
Double-blinded Placebo administered for 4 days at 25mg every 12 hours |
- Iohexol clearance [ Time Frame: 3 months ]Graft function at 3 months evaluated by GFR using iohexol clearance
- Proportion of dialysis dependency [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- Proportion of patients presenting a delayed graft function [ Time Frame: 7 days post transplantation ]The proportion of patients with a delayed graft function defined by the need for one or more dialysis sessions during the 7 days following transplantation
- 24-hour proteinuria [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- Occurrence of hyperkalemia > 6 mmol/l [ Time Frame: 7 days post transplant ]
- Length of initial hospital stay [ Time Frame: 1 month ]between transplantation and discharge
- Proportion of patients alive [ Time Frame: 3 months 1 year, 3 years, 10 years ]vital status collected through the national database of organ recipients
- serum creatinine [ Time Frame: 3 months 1 year, 3 years, 10 years ]using the enzymatic method
- glomerular filtration rate [ Time Frame: 3 months 1 year, 3 years, 10 years ]estimation using the CKD-EPI formula (in mL/min/1.73m2)
- Proportion of patients with immediate renal recovery, [ Time Frame: 7 days post transplant ]The proportion of patients with an immediate renal recovery is defined by a serum creatinine lower than 30 mg/L at 7 days post-transplant
- Iohexol clearance < 30 mL/min/1,73m² [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- 24-hour microalbuminuria [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- Proportion of patients with a slow renal recovery [ Time Frame: 7 days post transplant ]The proportion of patients with slow renal recovery is defined by serum creatinine above 30 mg/L at 7 days post-transplant without the need for dialysis
- Proportion of patients with biopsy-proven acute rejection [ Time Frame: 3 months post transplant ]Proportion of patients with biopsy-proven acute rejection in the first three month after transplantation

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients older than 18 years of age
- Informed consent
- Candidate for a single or a dual kidney transplantation from an expanded criteria deceased donor ( 60 years or older or age between 50 and 59 with 2 of the 3 following criteria: cardiovascular death, history of hypertension, serum creatinine above 130µmol/L), regardless of machine perfusion and graft rank
- Chronic hemodialysis
- Affiliated to a social security system
Exclusion Criteria:
- Multiple organ transplantation (kidney and liver, kidney and heart, kidney and pancreas, kidney and lung, kidney and intestine)
- Patient receiving a graft from a donor under mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist treatment (spironolactone or eplerenone)
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Preemptive transplantation
- Hypersensitivity or known allergy to Eplerenone or one of its excipients
- Patients with severe hepatic insufficiency (class Child-Pugh C)
- Patient receiving powerful CYP3A4 inhibitors (for example itraconazole, ketoconazole, ritonavir, nelfinavir, clarithromycin, telithromycyn and nefazodone)
- Hypersensitivity or known allergy to iodinated contrast agents (iohexol)
- Demonstrated thyrotoxicosis
- Hypersensitivity to lactose
- HLA desensitization prior to renal transplantation
- Pregnant woman or woman without effective contraception
- Patient under judicial protection
- Patient under legal guardianship
- Participation in another biomedical study

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02490904
France | |
CHRU Besançon | |
Besancon, France | |
CHU Brest | |
Brest, France | |
CHU Dijon- Hôpital Bocage Central | |
Dijon, France | |
CHRU de Nancy | |
Nancy, France | |
CHU Reims-Hôpital Maison Blanche | |
Reims, France | |
CHU Saint Etienne | |
Saint-Étienne, France | |
NHC -CHRU Strasbourg | |
Strasbourg, France |
Principal Investigator: | Frédéric JAISSER, MD | CHRU de Nancy | |
Study Chair: | Sophie GIRERD, MD | CHRU de NANCY | |
Study Chair: | Nicolas GIRERD, MD, PhD | CHRU de Nancy | |
Study Chair: | Luc FRIMAT, MD, PhD | CHRU de Nancy | |
Study Chair: | Patrick ROSSIGNOL, MD, PhD | CHRU de Nancy |
Responsible Party: | Pr Patrick ROSSIGNOL, Professor, Central Hospital, Nancy, France |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02490904 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2015-000956-29 |
First Posted: | July 7, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 14, 2022 |
Last Verified: | September 2022 |
Kidney transplantation Eplerenone |
Kidney Failure, Chronic Kidney Diseases Urologic Diseases Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Eplerenone Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists |
Hormone Antagonists Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists Physiological Effects of Drugs Diuretics, Potassium Sparing Diuretics Natriuretic Agents Antihypertensive Agents |