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BEAT-BK will see the effect of immunosuppression reduction/modification with and without IVIG on BKPyV infection, allograft function, allograft loss, acute transplant rejection, immunosuppression load and death in kidney and simultaneous kidney pancreas transplant recipients with polyomavirus infections (BKPyV).


Clinical Trial Description

BKPyV infection is a rare but also devastating disease in kidney and SPK transplant recipients. Immunosuppression used in transplantation minimises the risk of acute rejection and eventual graft loss, but suppression of the immune system increases the risk of opportunistic infections and reactivation of latent viruses causing disease, such as BKPyV infection. Therefore, balancing the complications of excessive versus inadequate immunosuppression is a key priority for patients and health professionals. The BEAT-BK trial is designed through a structured, consensus process, and informed by the pilot observational data generated by the investigators. The conventional immunosuppression reduction approach may include judicious reduction in the doses of calcineurin inhibitors and anti-proliferative agents, or conversion to less potent immunosuppression therapy such as a switch from tacrolimus to cyclosporine, or mycophenolate to azathioprine. While adjuvant therapy is not commonly used, 63% of participants would consider IVIG as a 'rescue', when conventional therapy has failed, or the graft function is deteriorating rapidly. IVIG is a nondepleting agent containing natural antibodies with potential antiviral and immunomodulatory properties. It is used against some chronic infections (Epstein-Barr virus) and the treatment of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplantation. In BKPyV infection, the certainty of the evidence for IVIG is very low due to imprecision, and high risk of bias (small, case series, retrospective cohorts), but it holds promise based on findings from our observational data (n = 50). Recipients with BKPyV-DNAemia who received IVIG as adjuvant therapy were more likely to achieve complete viral clearance at 12 months (77.3% vs. 33.3%, p < 0.01) and less likely to relapse (11% vs. 27.3%, p=0.01) compared to recipients who received conventional therapy alone. ;


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NCT number NCT05325008
Study type Interventional
Source The University of Queensland
Contact David Charman
Phone +61 498 521 400
Email beat-bk@uq.edu.au
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 3
Start date August 18, 2023
Completion date June 30, 2029

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