The purpose of this study is to evaluate in lung or heart-lung transplant patients on tacrolimus and mycophenolate the impact of optimized mofetil (MMF) therapeutic drug monitoring and dose adjustment of both drugs on the incidence of treatment failure over the first three years post-transplantation.
This research will be based on a prospective randomized trial comparing optimized TDM of tacrolimus and MMF to the current strategy of tacrolimus and MMF dose adjustment in lung transplant recipients. The study will focus on the first three years post-transplantation, as treatment failures (including BOS) occur mainly during this post-transplantation period. As the aim of tacrolimus and MMF dose individualization is to avoid over- or underexposure, for the purpose of this study treatment failure will be a composite criterion gathering events which reflect both over- and underexposure to tacrolimus and MMF. Optimized TDM of tacrolimus and MMF based on blood tacrolimus and plasma MPA AUC Bayesian estimation will be compared to current strategies: tacrolimus dose adjustment based on trough levels (C0) and administration of a standard dose of MMF, decreased by the pulmonologist in case of adverse drug reactions or increased in case of inefficacy. The efficacy of optimized strategy vs. current strategies will be mainly evaluated through the incidence of treatment failure.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
180
Tacrolimus: daily oral dose divided into 2 doses (morning and evening). MMF: daily dose divided into 2 doses at 12 hour intervals or 3 doses at 8 hour intervals.
Tacrolimus: daily oral dose divided into 2 doses (morning and evening). MMF: daily dose divided into 2 doses at 12 hour intervals or 3 doses at 8 hour intervals.
Service de Pneumologie
Brussels, Belgium
Pôle Médecine Aiguë et Communautaire, Clinique de Pneumologie,
Grenoble, France
Service de Pneumologie, HCL Lyon
Lyon, France
ApHm -Chirurgie thoracique
Marseille, France
Immunosuppressive treatment failure
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Efficacy score
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Toxicity score
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Benefit/risk ratio
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Each event composing the composite criterion
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Overall cost of patients monitoring
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
Pharmacogenetic and proteomic analysis
Time frame: Day 7, day 14, day 21; months 3, 6 and every six months afterwards up to 3 years posttransplantation
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