Sevelamer in Proteinuric CKD

Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Trial

— ANSWER  

Official title:

A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter, Open, Blinded Endpoint (PROBE), Clinical Trial to Assess the Renal and Humoral Effects of Sevelamer Carbonate in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and Residual Proteinuria Despite Best Available Treatment

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01968759
• Other study ID #: ANSWER
• Secondary ID: 2012-005416-26
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: October 15, 2013
• Last updated: October 9, 2015
• Start date: October 2013
• Est. completion date: October 2015

Study information

• Verified date: October 2015
• Source: Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Italy: The Italian Medicines Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Progressive renal impairment in chronic kidney diseases (CKD) may cause inability to excrete phosphate load, thus leading to the typical abnormalities of the mineral metabolism, such as increased phosphate and reduced calcium levels, 1,25- dihydroxyvitamin D deficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism (HPT). Treatment with vitamin D analogues and/or phosphate binders ameliorates these abnormalities that are also associated with accelerated renal disease progression and increased cardiovascular risk. However in a post-hoc analysis of 331 patients with proteinuric chronic nephropathies included in the Ramipril Efficacy In Nephropathy (REIN) trial, increasing serum phosphate levels at inclusion, even within the normal reference range, were associated with an incremental risk of progression to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Moreover, increasing levels of serum phosphate were associated with a progressively decreasing protective effect of ramipril therapy against progression to ESRD, to the point that the benefit of Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme (ACE) inhibition was almost fully lost among patients with serum phosphate levels exceeding 4.5 mg/dL. This finding provided convincing evidence that phosphate plays a direct pathogenic role in patients with progressive nephropathies and that excess phosphate exposure may limit or even blunt the renoprotective effect of ACE inhibitor therapy in this population.

Sevelamer carbonate is a newly approved phosphate binder for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients not yet on maintenance dialysis. Treatment with Sevelamer, in addition to correct hyperphosphatemia, was also found to ameliorate abnormalities of the mineral metabolism associated with accelerated renal disease progression and increased cardiovascular risk. Moreover, Sevelamer therapy reduces proteinuria in an animal model of uremia, an effect that in the long term might translate into significant renoprotection. These findings suggest that serum phosphate might be a specific target for renoprotective therapy in CKD patients and provide the background for randomized clinical trials to formally test whether reducing phosphate exposure by phosphate binding agents may serve to optimize the renoprotective effect of RAS inhibition in this population. Thus, whether phosphate reduction by Sevelamer carbonate therapy may have a specific antiproteinuric effect in humans with chronic nephropathies and residual proteinuria despite optimized RAS inhibitor therapy is worth investigating.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 53
• Est. completion date: October 2015
• Est. primary completion date: October 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age > 18 years;

• estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by simplified MDRD formula > 15 mL/min/1.73m2;

• 24-h urinary protein excretion rate = 0.5 g/24hour;

• no concomitant treatment with phosphate binders;

• written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• serum phosphate level < 2.5 or > 5.5 mg/dL;

• patients with serum PTH levels >250 pg/mL without stable vitamin D (calcitriol or paricalcitol) or calcimimetics therapy from at least three months;

• serum calcium level < 7.5 or >10.5 mg/dL;

• history of congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident within the last 6 months;

• cancer and any severe systemic disease or clinical condition that may jeopardize data interpretation or completion of the study;

• presence of, or predisposition to, intestinal or ileus obstruction or severe gastrointestinal motility disorder (like severe constipation);

• previous major gastrointestinal surgery;

• previous kidney transplantation;

• previous parathyroidectomy;

• concomitant treatment with antiacid and phosphate binders with aluminium, magnesium, calcium or lanthanum;

• pregnancy or breastfeeding;

• childbearing potential without reliable contraceptive methods during the whole study period;

• participation in any clinical trial using an investigational product or device during the 30 days preceding the first protocol visit;

• alcohol or drug (excluding tobacco) abuse ;

• inability to comply with the study procedures during the whole study period, legal incapacity.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Kidney Diseases
• Renal Insufficiency, Chronic

Intervention

Drug:
• Sevelamer

• Ramipril and Irbesartan

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases	Ranica	Bergamo
Italy	Azienda Ospedaliera "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli" c/o Ospedali Riuniti U.O. Nefrologia, Dialisi e Trapianto	Reggio Calabria

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	24-h urinary protein excretion		Changes from Baseline at 3,4,7 and 8 month.	No
Secondary	Office blood pressure		At every visit, up to 8 months.	No
Secondary	Glomerular Filtration Rate		Changes from baseline at 3,4 and 7 month.	No