Study of Ravulizumab in Proliferative Lupus Nephritis (LN) or Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN) (SANCTUARY)
A Phase 2, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Ravulizumab in Adult Participants With Proliferative Lupus Nephritis (LN) or Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN)
Study Overview
Status
Status
Conditions
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Enrollment
Phase
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
Study Contact
- Name: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Sponsor)
- Phone Number: 1-855-752-2356
- Email: clinicaltrials@alexion.com
Study Locations
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Herston, Australia, 4029
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Parkville, Australia, 3050
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Westmead, Australia, 2145
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Ontario
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London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5W9
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Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H1T 2M4
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Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1R 2J6
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Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003
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Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, 94270
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Paris, France, 75020
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Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France, 42270
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Strasbourg, France, 67091
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Toulouse, France, 31059
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Berlin, Germany, 10117
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Essen, Germany, 45147
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Hanover, Germany, 30625
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Lübeck, Germany, 23538
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Bologna, Italy, 40138
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Brescia, Italy, 25123
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Florence, Italy, 50134
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Torino, Italy, 10154
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Maastricht, Netherlands, 6229 HX
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Lodz, Poland, 92-213
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Anyang-si, South Korea, 14068
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Seongnam-si, South Korea, 13620
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Seoul, South Korea, 03080
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Seoul, South Korea, 03722
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Seoul, South Korea, 134-727
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Seoul, South Korea, 6591
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Barcelona, Spain, 08035
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Barcelona, Spain, 08036
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Lleida, Spain, 25198
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Madrid, Spain, 28041
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Madrid, Spain, 28040
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Madrid, Spain, 28007
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Málaga, Spain, 29010
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 07010
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Seville, Spain, 41013
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Valencia, Spain, 46017
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Zaragoza, Spain, 50009
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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 80756
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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 833401
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New Taipei City, Taiwan, 23561
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Taichung, Taiwan, 40447
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Edgbaston, United Kingdom, B15 2WB
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London, United Kingdom, SE1 7EH
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London, United Kingdom, W12 0HS
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Salford, United Kingdom, M6 8HD
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California
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San Dimas, California, United States, 91773
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Santa Monica, California, United States, 90404
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South Gate, California, United States, 90280
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Stanford, California, United States, 94305
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Florida
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Orlando, Florida, United States, 32835
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Plantation, Florida, United States, 33324
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Georgia
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Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States, 30046
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Kentucky
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Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
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Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
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Missouri
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64111
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New York
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New York, New York, United States, 10003
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North Carolina
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599
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Ohio
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Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43203
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Texas
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El Paso, Texas, United States, 79935
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Houston, Texas, United States, 77054
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
Common to both disease cohorts:
- Proteinuria ≥1 (gram [g]/day or g/g)
- Vaccinated against meningococcal infection
- Vaccinated for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and Streptococcus pneumoniae according to national/local regulatory requirements
For LN cohort:
- Diagnosis of active focal or diffuse proliferative LN Class III or IV
- Clinically active LN, requiring/receiving immunosuppression induction treatment
For IgAN cohort:
- Diagnosis of primary IgAN
- Compliance with stable and optimal dose of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor treatment for ≥ 3 months
Exclusion Criteria:
Common to both disease cohorts:
- eGFR < 30 milliliters/minute/1.73 meters squared
- Previously received a complement inhibitor (for example, eculizumab)
- Concomitant significant renal disease other than LN or IgAN
- History of other solid organ or bone marrow transplant
- Uncontrolled hypertension
For IgAN cohort:
- Diagnosis of rapid progressive glomerulonephritis
- Prednisone or prednisone equivalent > 20 milligram (mg) per day for > 14 consecutive days or any other immunosuppression within 6 months
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Triple
Number of Arms
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / ArmParticipant Group / Arm |
Intervention / TreatmentIntervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Ravulizumab: LN Cohort
Eligible participants will receive ravulizumab IV infusion in combination with background therapy during both the Initial Evaluation Period (26 weeks) and Extension Period (24 weeks).
During the Follow-up Period (36 weeks) participants will receive background therapy according to the standard of care.
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Dosages (loading and maintenance) will be based on the participant's body weight.
Other Names:
Participants will receive background therapy consistent with the standard of care.
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo: LN Cohort
Eligible participants will receive placebo IV infusion in combination with background therapy during both the Initial Evaluation Period (26 weeks) and Extension Period (24 weeks).
During the Follow-up Period (36 weeks) participants will receive background therapy according to the standard of care.
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Participants will receive background therapy consistent with the standard of care.
Dosages (loading and maintenance) will be based on the participant's body weight.
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Experimental: Ravulizumab: IgAN Cohort
Eligible participants will receive ravulizumab IV infusion in combination with background therapy during both the Initial Evaluation Period (26 weeks) and Extension Period (24 weeks).
During the Follow-up Period (36 weeks) participants will receive background therapy according to the standard of care.
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Dosages (loading and maintenance) will be based on the participant's body weight.
Other Names:
Participants will receive background therapy consistent with the standard of care.
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo: IgAN Cohort
Eligible participants will receive placebo IV infusion in combination with background therapy during the Initial Evaluation Period (26 weeks) and will switch to ravulizumab for the Extension Period (24 weeks).
During the Follow-up Period (36 weeks) participants will receive background therapy according to the standard of care.
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Dosages (loading and maintenance) will be based on the participant's body weight.
Other Names:
Participants will receive background therapy consistent with the standard of care.
Dosages (loading and maintenance) will be based on the participant's body weight.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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IgAN Cohort: Percentage Change From Baseline in Proteinuria at Week 26 Measured by Absolute Protein (Based on 24-hour Urine Collections)
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by absolute protein in grams/day derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
A negative change from baseline indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 26
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LN Cohort: Percentage Change From Baseline in Proteinuria at Week 26 Measured by Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio (UPCR) (Based on 24-hour Urine Collections)
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by UPCR in grams/gram derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
A negative change from baseline indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 26
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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IgAN Cohort: Percentage Change From Baseline in Proteinuria at Week 50 Measured by Absolute Protein (Based on 24-hour Urine Collections)
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 50
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by absolute protein in grams/day derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
A negative change from baseline indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage Change From Baseline in Proteinuria at Week 50 Measured by UPCR (Based on 24-hour Urine Collections)
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 50
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by UPCR in grams/gram derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
A negative change from baseline indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 50
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IgAN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With > 30% and > 50% Reduction in Proteinuria at Week 26 and Week 50 Compared to Baseline Assessed Using 24-hour Urine Collections
Time Frame: Baseline to Week 26 and Week 50
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by absolute protein in grams/day derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
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Baseline to Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With > 30% and > 50% Reduction in Proteinuria at Week 26 and Week 50 Compared to Baseline Assessed Using 24-hour Urine Collections
Time Frame: Baseline to Week 26 and Week 50
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Proteinuria, the presence of excess proteins in the urine, was measured by UPCR in grams/gram derived from 24-hour urine collections obtained at designated timepoints.
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Baseline to Week 26 and Week 50
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IgAN Cohort: Change From Baseline in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) at Week 26 and Week 50
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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Changes in kidney function were monitored using measurements of eGFR and calculated based on the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration formula.
Results are reported in milliliters/minute/1.73 meters squared (mL/min/1.73
m^2).
Estimates of change from baseline are least-square means based on a mixed-effect model for repeated measures model that included change from baseline as the response variable, treatment as independent variable and adjusts for covariates of baseline and the stratification factor at randomization.
An increase in eGFR in response to treatment indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Change From Baseline in eGFR at Week 26 and Week 50
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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Changes in kidney function were monitored using measurements of eGFR and calculated based on the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration formula.
Results are reported in mL/min/1.73
m^2.
Estimates of change from baseline are least-square means based on a mixed-effect model for repeated measures model that included change from baseline as the response variable, treatment as independent variable and adjusts for covariates of baseline and the stratification factor at randomization.
An increase in eGFR in response to treatment indicated a reduction in symptoms.
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Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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IgAN Cohort: Change From Baseline in Serum Complement Component 3 (C3) and Complement Component 4 (C4) Concentrations at Week 26 and Week 50
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Change From Baseline in Serum C3 and C4 Concentrations at Week 26 and Week 50
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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Baseline, Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants Meeting the Criteria for Complete Renal Response (CRR)
Time Frame: Week 26 and Week 50
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The CRR was defined as meeting all 3 of the following criteria: - UPCR ≤0.5 gram/gram (g/g); - eGFR >60 mL/min/1.73
m^2 or no eGFR reduction ≥20% from baseline; and - no treatment failure.
Treatment failure was defined as the receipt of additional standard of care therapy at any time during the study for protocol-defined renal flare, severe extrarenal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flare, or suboptimal response.
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Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants Meeting the Criteria for Partial Renal Response (PRR)
Time Frame: Week 26 and Week 50
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The PRR was defined as meeting all 3 of the following criteria: - decrease of UPCR >50% from baseline; - eGFR >60 mL/min/1.73
m^2 or no eGFR reduction ≥20% from baseline; and - no treatment failure.
Treatment failure was defined as the receipt of additional standard of care therapy at any time during the study for protocol-defined renal flare, severe extrarenal SLE flare, or suboptimal response.
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Week 26 and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Time to Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio (UPCR) < 0.5 g/g, as Measured by Spot Urine Samples
Time Frame: Baseline through Week 50
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Baseline through Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants Achieving Corticosteroid Taper to 7.5 Milligrams (mg)/Day
Time Frame: Week 14, Week 26, and Week 50
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A corticosteroid taper was carried out per protocol at the clinical discretion of the investigator.
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Week 14, Week 26, and Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With Renal Flare
Time Frame: Baseline through Week 50
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Renal flare was determined in the opinion of the investigator and additional protocol-specified criteria.
For participants who achieved a CRR, a renal flare was the reproducible recurrence of proteinuria ≥1g/g.
For all other participants, a renal flare was either of the following: a reproducible increase of serum creatinine >25% higher than baseline, above the upper limit of normal (plus additional protocol-specified criteria), or a reproducible doubling of the UPCR from a 24-hour urine collection compared with the lowest previous value obtained after the first dose of study intervention.
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Baseline through Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With Extrarenal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Flare
Time Frame: Baseline through Week 50
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Extrarenal SLE flare was defined as an increase in the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) Safety of Estrogens in Lupus Erythematosus National Assessment modification ≥4 points that was not accounted for by proteinuria, hematuria, urinary cellular casts, hypocomplementemia, or an increase in anti-double-stranded DNA antibody level.
The SLEDAI-2K is an instrument that was used to assess the disease activity of extrarenal SLE flare across 18 disease descriptors.
Each descriptor carried a weighted value ranging from 1-8, with the reported score calculated as the sum of these descriptors and ranging from 0 to 85. Higher scores represent increased degrees of disease activity.
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Baseline through Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With Treatment Failure
Time Frame: Baseline through Week 50
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Treatment failure was defined as the receipt of additional standard of care therapy at any time during the study for protocol-defined renal flare, severe extrarenal SLE flare, or suboptimal response.
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Baseline through Week 50
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LN Cohort: Percentage of Participants With Suboptimal Response
Time Frame: Baseline through Week 50
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A suboptimal response was to be determined in the opinion of the investigator in addition to the following criterion: reproducible proteinuria ≤25% decreased compared to baseline based on UPCR on a 24-hour urine collection performed by a central laboratory.
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Baseline through Week 50
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LN Cohort: Change From Baseline in Serum Albumin at Week 26 and Week 50
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 26, Week 50
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For the determination of serum albumin, blood samples were obtained at designated time points.
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Baseline, Week 26, Week 50
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IgAN Cohort: Percentage of Participants Meeting the Criteria for Partial Remission
Time Frame: Week 26 and Week 50
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Partial remission was defined as mean proteinuria <1 g/24 hours, based on two valid 24-hour urine collections obtained within 2 weeks prior to the study visit.
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Week 26 and Week 50
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Avasare R, Drexler Y, Caster DJ, Mitrofanova A, Jefferson JA. Management of Lupus Nephritis: New Treatments and Updated Guidelines. Kidney360. 2023 Oct 1;4(10):1503-1511. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000230.
- Lafayette R, Tumlin J, Fenoglio R, Kaufeld J, Perez Valdivia MA, Wu MS, Susan Huang SH, Alamartine E, Kim SG, Yee M, Kateifides A, Rice K, Garlo K, Barratt J; SANCTUARY Study Investigators. Efficacy and Safety of Ravulizumab in IgA Nephropathy: A Phase 2 Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Apr 1;36(4):645-656. doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000534. Epub 2024 Oct 25.
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Study Record Updates
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Urogenital Diseases
- Male Urogenital Diseases
- Kidney Diseases
- Urologic Diseases
- Female Urogenital Diseases
- Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Immune System Diseases
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Nephritis
- Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
- Lupus Nephritis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Glomerulonephritis, IGA
- Immunosuppressive Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Complement Inactivating Agents
- ravulizumab
Other Study ID Numbers
Other Study ID Numbers
- ALXN1210-NEPH-202
- 2020-001537-13 (EudraCT Number)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
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product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.
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