About this trial
Identification of a bacterial signature in the blood or stool that may be associated with acute rejection in patients treated with Nulojix during their first year of transplant.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients called for a kidney transplant
Induction therapy with Simulect, maintenance therapy with Nulojix, mycophenolate acid and steroids
Patient having signed the informed consent
Disqualifiers
Multiple grafts combined or sequential
Induction therapy with polyclonal antibodies
HIV or active viral infection such as hepatitis B or C
Active bacterial infection
Trial population
70 patients treated with Simulect as induction, and with Nulojix®, mycophenolic acid and steroids as maintenance therapy during the first year of kidney transplant.
Trial design
Cohort
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Belatacept Injection [Nulojix]
DrugDrugs administrated are part of the usual care
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Acute rejection occurence
Occurence of cellular rejection according to the BANFF 2017
Secondary outcomes
Gut and circulating microbiota
16S DNA sequencing
Lymphocyte phenotype
CD3+CD4+CD57+PD1-, CD3+CD8+CD28low, CD3+CD8+CD45RA phenotype
Glomerular filtration rate
CDK-EPI creatinine equation
Sponsors and contacts
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