Evaluate the safety and efficacy of early corticosteroid withdrawal and simultaneous calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal in recipients of primary renal allografts maintained long-term on MMF and sirolimus.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
17
The Christ Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Composite endpoint of either acute rejection, biopsy proven calcineurin inhibitor toxicity, or failure of the estimated BSA indexed GFR by MDRD method to improve by 20% from time randomization to 12 months.
Renal allograft function at 6 and 12 months.
Incidence of biopsy proven acute rejection at 6 and 12 months.
Time to first rejection.
Total number of rejection episodes per patient.
Graft loss and patient death.
Incidence of treatment failure.
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