Harmless virus may hold key to safer kidney transplants
NCT ID NCT06829719
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether monitoring levels of a harmless virus called TTV can help doctors personalize immune-suppressing drugs for kidney transplant patients. The goal is to prevent long-term complications like infections, cancer, and organ rejection. About 600 adults who received a kidney transplant 1-4 years ago will take part. Their treatment will be adjusted based on TTV levels, aiming to find the right balance between preventing rejection and avoiding side effects.
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 600 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2031
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- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: * Adult ≥ 18 years-old * Recipient of a kidney allograft (third graft at most) * 12 to 48 months post-transplantation * Stable graft function (defined as: delta creatininemia over the previous 6 months \< 20% and proteinuria \< 30mg/mmol) * On maintenance immunosuppression, which includes CNI (cyclosporin or tacrolimus) and MMF (Cellcept or Myfortic) with or without corticosteroids * Detectable TTV DNAemia at enrollment * No circulating DSA in solid phase assay * Undetectable BKV DNAemia at enrollment * Written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Recipient of an HLA identical graft * Mutiple organ transplantation or functional transplant other than kidney * Maintenance immunosuppression that includes a mTOR inhibitor, belatacept or imurel * Presence of histological sign of active rejection (i+t \> 2 and g+cpt \> 2) on graft biopsy performed within 3 months before enrollment * Uncontrolled infection at inclusion * Infection requiring hospitalization within 3 months before inclusion * Diagnosis of a cancer of interest between the (current) transplantation and inclusion * Pregnant, unwillingness to practice adequate contraception or patient with a pregnancy plan during 3 years of study * Person not affiliated to a social security scheme or beneficiary of a similar scheme * Person subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship) or deprived of liberty
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Conditions
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The places running it
4 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Département de Néphrologie et Transplantation d'Organes Hôpital Rangueil - CHU de Toulouse
RECRUITINGToulouse (France), 31059, France
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Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation Rénale Nouvel Hôpital Civil
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGStrasbourg (france), 67091, France
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Service de Néphrologie-Transplantation-Dialyse I Hôpital Pellegrin I - CHU Bordeaux
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBordeaux (France), 33000, France
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Service de transplantation, néphrologie et immunologie clinique Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot
RECRUITINGLyon, 69003, France
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