Kidney transplant study aims to find safer drug combo
NCT ID NCT06374095
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study looks at 75 kidney transplant patients to compare two different drug combinations given right after transplant. One group gets a single dose of RATG plus basiliximab, while the other gets seven doses of RATG plus basiliximab. The goal is to see which approach causes fewer side effects like low platelet or white blood cell counts.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Basiliximab and RATG (Thymoglobulin)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could help doctors choose a safer drug combination for kidney transplant patients, reducing side effects like low blood cell counts.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, observational study with only 75 patients, so results may not apply to everyone. It compares existing drugs, not a new breakthrough.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 75 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2024
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2025
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
Consecutive recipients of a single or dual kidney transplant from ideal or marginal donors at the Renal Transplant Center of the Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, in Bergamo (Italy)
- 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: * Consecutive recipients of a single or dual kidney transplant from ideal or marginal donors who, from 01/04/2023 to 31/12/2023, were induced with one single perioperative RATG infusion * Consecutive recipients (Reference-Patients) of a single or dual kidney transplant from ideal or marginal donors who before 01/04/2023 were induced with seven perioperative RATG infusions (on top of the same induction and maintenance treatment used for patients receiving one single RATG infusion) Exclusion Criteria: * Living donor recipients, second transplant recipients or patients receiving a multiorgan transplant, and patients with a peak panel reactive antibody titer \>30% or positive B cell cross-match
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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ASST HPG23 - Unità di Nefrologia
Bergamo, BG, 24127, Italy
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