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Clinical trialNCT00596947TerminatedPhase 4Interventional

Prednisone Withdrawal Versus Prednisone Maintenance After Kidney Transplant

SponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaEnrollment18Transplants and Implants
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of the study was to determine if rapid discontinuation of corticosteroids (also known as prednisone withdrawal) and maintenance immunosuppression with Prograf (tacrolimus) and CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) while using Thymoglobulin (Rabbit antithymocyte globulin) will give similar safety and efficacy results compared to continuation of corticosteroids (also known as prednisone maintenance) and standard maintenance immunosuppression with Prograf (tacrolimus), CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) while using Thymoglobulin (Rabbit antithymocyte globulin).
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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

  • Simin Goral, MD

    University of Pennsylvania-Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division

    Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Mycophenolate mofetil →Prednisone →Tacrolimus →Lymphocyte immune globulin, anti-thymocyte globulin →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Oct 2005
Primary completion
31 Mar 2009
Completion
31 Mar 2009
Last update posted
15 May 2017
Registered enrollment
18
Registry id
NCT00596947
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.