- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00377637
A Study of Mycophenolate Mofetil (CellCept) in Management of Patients With Lupus Nephritis.
A Prospective, Randomized, Active Controlled, Parallel Group, Multi-center Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) in Inducing Response and Maintaining Remission in Subjects With Lupus Nephritis.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, C1015ABO
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, C1425DQK
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Córdoba, Argentina, 5016
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San Isidro, Argentina, B1602BPPD
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Tucuman, Argentina, T4000AXL
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Adelaide, Australia, SA 5000
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Camperdown, Australia, 2050
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Melbourne, Australia, 3168
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Parkville, Australia, 3052
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Woodville, Australia, 5011
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Bruxelles, Belgium, 1200
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Leuven, Belgium, 3000
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Liege, Belgium, 4000
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20551-030
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Sao Paulo, Brazil, 04039-020
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Sorocaba, Brazil, 18030-210
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British Columbia
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 1L7
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8Z 7X8
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Nova Scotia
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 2Y9
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Ontario
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London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4V2
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 2S8
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Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H1T 2M4
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Beijing, China, 100034
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Guangdong, China, 510008
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Guangzhou, China, 510630
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Jiangsu, China, 210002
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Shanghai, China, 200001
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Brno, Czech Republic, 656 91
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Praha 2, Czech Republic, 128 08
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Lille, France, 59037
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Lyon, France, 69437
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Nantes, France, 44035
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Paris, France, 75679
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Paris, France, 75877
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Toulouse, France, 31059
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Aachen, Germany, 52074
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Bad Bramstedt, Germany, 24576
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Berlin, Germany, 10117
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Berlin, Germany, 14059
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Dresden, Germany, 01307
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Düsseldorf, Germany, 40225
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Erlangen, Germany, 91054
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Hannover, Germany, 30625
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Leipzig, Germany, 04103
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Muenster, Germany, 48149
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München, Germany, 80336
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München, Germany, 81675
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Athens, Greece, 11521
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Athens, Greece, 11527
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Heraklion, Greece, 71500
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Debrecen, Hungary, 4032
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Pécs, Hungary, 7632
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Szeged, Hungary, 2724
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Brescia, Italy, 25125
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Milano, Italy, 20149
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Padova, Italy, 35128
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Pisa, Italy, 56100
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Udine, Italy, 33100
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Merida, Mexico, 97000
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Mexico City, Mexico, 14000
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San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 78240
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Lisboa, Portugal
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Porto, Portugal, 4200-319
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Alicante, Spain, 03010
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Barcelona, Spain, 08036
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Barcelona, Spain, 08035
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Madrid, Spain, 28041
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Malaga, Spain, 29010
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Santander, Spain, 39008
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Sevilla, Spain, 41013
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Birmingham, United Kingdom, B15 2TT
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB2 2QQ
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Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 3EX
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London, United Kingdom, SE1 7EH
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London, United Kingdom, W12 OHS
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London, United Kingdom, WIT 4NJ
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Manchester, United Kingdom, M13 9WL
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE7 7DN
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Sheffield, United Kingdom, S10 2JF
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Southampton, United Kingdom, SO16 6YD
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Alabama
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Huntsville, Alabama, United States, 35801
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California
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La Jolla, California, United States, 92037
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
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San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
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San Leandro, California, United States, 94578
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Torrance, California, United States, 90502
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Florida
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Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
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Georgia
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30303
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Illinois
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
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Maryland
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
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Michigan
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109-0358
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Missouri
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Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65212
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New York
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Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11203
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Lake Success, New York, United States, 11042
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New York, New York, United States, 10032
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New York, New York, United States, 10021
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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, 27599-7280
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Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
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Ohio
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44136
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Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
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Oklahoma
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
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South Carolina
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Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29425
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Texas
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Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- male or female patients, 12-75 years of age;
- diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus;
- kidney biopsy within 6 months of study, with histological diagnosis of lupus nephritis;
- laboratory evidence of active nephritis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- continuous dialysis starting >2 weeks before randomization into induction phase, and/or with an anticipated duration of >8 weeks;
- previous or planned kidney transplant;
- other clinically significant active medical conditions.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Induction Phase: Mycophenolate mofetil
Participants received oral mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) 1.5 g twice a day and concomitant corticosteroids for the 24 weeks of the Induction Phase.
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Supplied as 500 mg tablets taken orally twice a day (BID).
Dose specific for each arm.
Dosing started at 500 mg BID for the first week, increasing by 500 mg in subsequent weeks until the final target dose was reached.
Other Names:
Oral prednisolone (or equivalent) starting at a dose of 0.75-1.0
mg/kg/day (maximum 60 mg/day) tapered to 10 mg/day.
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Active Comparator: Induction Phase: Cyclophosphamide
Participants received monthly infusions of cyclophosphamide, 0.5 to 1.0 g per square meter of body surface area and concomitant treatment with corticosteroids for the 24 week Induction Phase.
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Oral prednisolone (or equivalent) starting at a dose of 0.75-1.0
mg/kg/day (maximum 60 mg/day) tapered to 10 mg/day.
Intravenous cyclophosphamide (IVC) was administered every four weeks (monthly) to a total of six infusions. Dosing was started at 0.75 g/m^2 of body surface area for the first month, with subsequent doses at 0.5-1.0 g/m^2. The target dose was 1.0 g/m^2, but doses were titrated by 0.25 g/m^2 increments to maintain nadir leukocyte count between 2500-4000/mm^3.
Other Names:
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Experimental: Maintenance Phase: Mycophenolate mofetil
Participants received mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) 1.0 g orally twice a day, placebo to azathioprine orally once a day and corticosteroid for the 36 weeks Maintenance Phase.
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Supplied as 500 mg tablets taken orally twice a day (BID).
Dose specific for each arm.
Dosing started at 500 mg BID for the first week, increasing by 500 mg in subsequent weeks until the final target dose was reached.
Other Names:
Oral prednisolone (or equivalent) starting at a dose of 0.75-1.0
mg/kg/day (maximum 60 mg/day) tapered to 10 mg/day.
Placebo capsules matching Azathioprine taken orally once a day.
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Active Comparator: Maintenance Phase: Azathioprine
Participants received azathioprine (AZA) 2 mg/kg/day orally once a day, placebo to mycophenolate mofetil orally twice a day and corticosteroid for the 36 weeks Maintenance Phase.
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Oral prednisolone (or equivalent) starting at a dose of 0.75-1.0
mg/kg/day (maximum 60 mg/day) tapered to 10 mg/day.
2 mg/kg/day orally, provided as 50 mg capsules to be taken after meals.
Other Names:
Placebo tablets matching Mycophenolate mofetil taken orally twice daily.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
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Induction Phase: Number of Patients Showing Treatment Response
Time Frame: 24 weeks
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Treatment response was adjudicated by a blinded clinical endpoints committee (CEC) and defined as: a) Decrease in proteinuria, defined as a decrease in the urine protein to creatinine ratio (UPCr) to <3 in subjects with baseline proteinuria ≥3 UPCr or a decrease in the UPCr by ≥50% in subjects with proteinuria <3 UPCr at Baseline, and b) Stabilization of serum creatinine or improvement.
UPCr were derived from the 24 hour urine collection.
Patients who did not show a treatment response at Week 24 or who withdrew earlier than Week 24 were considered non-responders.
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24 weeks
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Maintenance Phase: Kaplan-Meier Estimates of Percentage of Participants Treatment Failure Free, by Time Interval
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Treatment Failure was adjudicated by a clinical endpoints committee and was defined as the time to the earliest occurrence of any one of the following: death, end stage renal disease, sustained doubling of serum creatinine, renal flare, or a requirement for rescue therapy for exacerbation or deterioration of Lupus nephritis.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves were estimated from the observed time to treatment failure for each patient.
The data presented are the percentage of participants who were treatment-failure free at each time interval as estimated by Kaplan-Meier.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
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Induction Phase: Number of Participants Achieving Complete Remission
Time Frame: 24 weeks
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Number of participants achieving complete remission as defined by return to normal serum creatinine, proteinuria ≤500 mg/24 hours and an inactive urinary sediment (absence of red blood cells, white blood cells or cellular or granular casts) after 24 weeks.
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24 weeks
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Induction Phase: Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Serum Creatinine
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24
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Baseline, Week 24
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Induction Phase: Change From Baseline to Week 24 in 24-hour Urine Protein
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24
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24-hour urine protein was measured at Baseline and Week 24.
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Baseline, Week 24
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Induction Phase: Change From Baseline to Week 24 in Serum Albumin
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24
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Baseline, Week 24
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Induction Phase: Change in Renal British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG) Score
Time Frame: Baseline, 24 weeks
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BILAG indices provide a scoring system for the assessment of lupus disease activity in terms of the need for steroid treatment in 8 organs/systems. Eighty-six items were scored resulting in a classification of A (severe activity), B (moderate activity), C (mild activity), D (no current activity) and E (no activity ever observed) for each organ system. The BILAG individual system summaries were calculated by a program supplied by ADS-Limathon (Sheffield, UK). The score at baseline was compared to the score at the 24 week endpoint for each treatment group, reported here for the renal system. |
Baseline, 24 weeks
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Induction Phase: Change From Baseline in Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) Domain and Component Scores
Time Frame: Baseline and 24 weeks
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The SF-36 is a 36 item quality of life questionnaire.
The short-form version has eleven questions that permit the participant to rate how they feel that particular day.
The SF-36 consists of eight scaled scores and two component scores, which are the weighted sums of the questions in their section.
Each scale is directly transformed into a 0-100 score with the higher scores indicating better quality of life.
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Baseline and 24 weeks
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Maintenance Phase: Events Contributing to the Primary Endpoint: Number of Deaths
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Treatment Failure was adjudicated by a clinical endpoints committee (CEC) and was defined as the time to the earliest occurrence of any one of the following: death, end stage renal disease, sustained doubling of serum creatinine, renal flare, or a requirement for rescue therapy for exacerbation or deterioration of Lupus nephritis (LN).
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Maintenance Phase: Events Contributing to the Primary Endpoint: Number of Participants With End-stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Time to treatment failure, adjudicated by the Clinical Endpoints Committee (CEC), was defined as any 1 the following: death, ESRD, sustained doubling of serum creatinine, renal flare (proteinuric or nephritic), or requirement for rescue therapy to treat deterioration or exacerbation of Lupus nephritis.
ESRD is defined as progression to chronic hemodialysis or renal transplant.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Maintenance Phase: Events Contributing to the Primary Endpoint: Number of Participants With Sustained Doubling of Serum Creatinine
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Sustained doubling of serum creatinine concentration is defined as the first serum creatinine value that is twice the mean of the lowest 2 values from screening to end of induction, as confirmed by a second serum creatinine value obtained at least 4 weeks after the initial doubling.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Maintenance Phase: Events Contributing to the Primary Endpoint: Kaplan-Meier Estimates of Percentage of Participants Renal Flare Free, by Time Interval
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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A proteinuric flare is defined as a doubling of the urine protein:creatinine ratio, and proteinuria ≥1 g/24 h in patients with urine protein ≤0.5 g/24 h at the end of the induction phase, or proteinuria ≥2 g/24 h if urine protein was >0.5 g/24 h at the end of the induction phase.
A nephritic flare is defined as a 25% increase in serum creatinine accompanied by 1 or more of the following: (a) simultaneous doubling of the proteinuria reaching a minimum of 2 g/24 h (b) new/increased hematuria or (c) the appearance of cellular casts.
All flares were adjudicated by a clinical endpoints committee.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Maintenance Phase: Events Contributing to the Primary Endpoint: Kaplan-Meier Estimates of Percentage of Participants Not Receiving Rescue Therapy
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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The primary efficacy parameter was the time to treatment failure, adjudicated by the Clinical Endpoints Committee (CEC), defined as any of the following: death, end stage renal disease, sustained doubling of serum creatinine, renal flare, or requirement for rescue therapy to treat deterioration or exacerbation of Lupus nephritis.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves were estimated from the observed time to rescue treatment for each patient.
The data presented are the percentage of participants who were rescue treatment free at each time interval as estimated by Kaplan-Meier.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Maintenance Phase: Participants With Major Extra-renal Flare
Time Frame: From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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A major extra-renal flare is defined as a British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG) Score category A in one extrarenal organ or three organs with concurrent category B scores.
BILAG indices provide a scoring system for the assessment of lupus disease activity in terms of the need for steroid treatment in 8 organs/systems.
Eighty-six items were scored resulting in a classification of A (severe activity), B (moderate activity), C (mild activity), D (no current activity) and E (no activity ever observed) for each organ system.
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From the start of the Maintenance Phase to Month 36
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Sundel R, Solomons N, Lisk L; Aspreva Lupus Management Study (ALMS) Group. Efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in adolescent patients with lupus nephritis: evidence from a two-phase, prospective randomized trial. Lupus. 2012 Nov;21(13):1433-43. doi: 10.1177/0961203312458466. Epub 2012 Aug 24.
- Dooley MA, Jayne D, Ginzler EM, Isenberg D, Olsen NJ, Wofsy D, Eitner F, Appel GB, Contreras G, Lisk L, Solomons N; ALMS Group. Mycophenolate versus azathioprine as maintenance therapy for lupus nephritis. N Engl J Med. 2011 Nov 17;365(20):1886-95. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1014460.
- Dall'Era M, Stone D, Levesque V, Cisternas M, Wofsy D. Identification of biomarkers that predict response to treatment of lupus nephritis with mycophenolate mofetil or pulse cyclophosphamide. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Mar;63(3):351-7. doi: 10.1002/acr.20397. Epub 2010 Nov 15.
- Ginzler EM, Wofsy D, Isenberg D, Gordon C, Lisk L, Dooley MA; ALMS Group. Nonrenal disease activity following mycophenolate mofetil or intravenous cyclophosphamide as induction treatment for lupus nephritis: findings in a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel-group clinical trial. Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Jan;62(1):211-21. doi: 10.1002/art.25052. Erratum In: Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Oct;62(10):3005.
- Isenberg D, Appel GB, Contreras G, Dooley MA, Ginzler EM, Jayne D, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Wofsy D, Yu X, Solomons N. Influence of race/ethnicity on response to lupus nephritis treatment: the ALMS study. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2010 Jan;49(1):128-40. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep346. Epub 2009 Nov 20.
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Study Start
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Immune System Diseases
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Kidney Diseases
- Urologic Diseases
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Glomerulonephritis
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Nephritis
- Lupus Nephritis
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Antirheumatic Agents
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
- Antimetabolites
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Immunosuppressive Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
- Alkylating Agents
- Myeloablative Agonists
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
- Antitubercular Agents
- Antibiotics, Antitubercular
- Cyclophosphamide
- Azathioprine
- Mycophenolic Acid
Other Study ID Numbers
- WX17801
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