Kidney transplant patients' immune response to common virus tracked after drug switch
NCT ID NCT05708534
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study follows 28 kidney transplant recipients who are switching from one anti-rejection drug (anticalcineurin) to another (belatacept). Researchers want to see how this change affects the immune system's ability to fight the common CMV virus. Participants will have blood tests at the start, 3 months, and 6 months to measure CMV-fighting T-cells.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 28 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2023
- Expected to finish
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May 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Cohort of kidney transplant recipients seropositive for CMV
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Renal transplant follow-up at Rouen University Hospital * Clinico-biological intolerance to anticalcineurins defined by GFR \< 25 mL/min and/or water and sodium overload justifying the prescription of loop diuretics and/or post-transplant diabetes and/or resistant hypertension (requiring at least 3 treatments antihypertensives including a thiazide diuretic to reach an objective ≤ 140/90 mmHg). * Having performed a graft biopsy \< 3 months old finding lesions of fibrous endarteritis ≥ 2 or arteriolar hyalinosis ≥ 2 * Having undergone collegial validation for the initiation of treatment with belatacept combined with 3-month anti-CMV prophylaxis with oral Valganciclovir. * Absence of contraindication to belatacept * Patient who has never received belatacept * Having a positive CMV serological status Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with symptomatic infection * Pregnant or parturient or breast-feeding woman or lack of proven effective contraception * Person deprived of liberty by an administrative or judicial decision or person placed under legal safeguard / sub-tutorship or curatorship * Patient participating in another therapeutic trial or having participated in another trial within 1 month
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Rouen Hospital
Rouen, 76031, France
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