Mycophenolate Mofetil, Carnitine and PDE5 Inhibitor, Three Potential Treatments for Resistant Proteinuria Slowing Diabetic Nephropathy Deterioration

Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) ,Carnitine and Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitor, Three Potential Treatments for Resistant Proteinuria and for Slowing the Deterioration of Diabetic Nephropathy in Patients With Type II Diabetes Mellitus

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01566006
• Other study ID #: nazh8827ctil
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 15, 2010
• Last updated: March 28, 2012
• Start date: April 2012
• Est. completion date: August 2013

Study information

• Verified date: March 2012
• Source: The Nazareth Hospital, Israel
• Contact: najla hamati
• Phone: 04-6028888
• Email: nana[@]nazhosp.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing disease and it is a public health concern, and projections of its future effect are alarming. About one third of those affected will develop diabetic nephropathy at 20 years after diagnosis. Of these patients, 20% will develop clinically end-stage renal disease ESRD, requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT). Patients with type 2 diabetes account for most patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) and RRT.

To the best of the investigators knowledge, the effects of MMF on diabetic nephropathy in patients with DM type II were not studied so far. Therefore, the purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the effects of Mofetil Mycophenolate (MMF) on proteinuria and progression of kidney disease of diabetic origin, in patients at high risk for progressive renal failure in whom other treatment modalities are insufficient or had failed.

Description:

The pathophysiology of the diabetic nephropathy was initially considered to be merely secondary to a non-immune mechanism, specifically due to metabolic (hyperglycemia) and hemodynamic (glomerular capillary hypertension - mechanical stretching) factors. However, our understanding of the pathophysiological processes that lead to diabetic nephropathy and its progression is now clearer and involved not only a non immune mechanism, but also immune-mediated and inflammatory mechanism. Activation of the immune system, with the participation of a chronic inflammatory state, plays a central role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Evidence for the involvement of the immune system in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy was derived from the elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-1, IL-6, IL-18, and TNF-α. These factors are important predictors of the development of diabetic nephropathy, and recently it was shown that these inflammatory cytokines play a determinant role in the development and progression of the microvascular diabetic nephropathy. The first published study that showed the implication of the inflammatory cytokines in the pathogenesis of the diabetic nephropathy was in 1991. Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) is an immunosuppressant drug, used to prevent rejection, especially acute rejection in various organ transplantations, mainly kidney transplantation since 1995. In the last decade there are increasing reports describing the beneficial use of MMF in immune- mediated and auto-immune disorders such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, IGA nephropathy and other glomerulopathies.

Unfortunately, the potentially beneficial effects of MMF on diabetic nephropathy were not examined in clinical DM and is limited to diabetic rats. In a recent study, Utimura et al. have demonstrated that MMF largely prevented the development of albuminuria and glomerular injury in experimental diabetic nephropathy. The beneficial effect of MMF was not related to its action on glomerular hemodynamic or improvement of metabolic control, but probably related directly to its immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory properties.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: August 2013
• Est. primary completion date: June 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 30 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. T2 DM at age =18 y with at least 10 years duration of diabetes.

2. Proteinuria due to diabetic nephropathy of = 2 gram/d treated with ACEi or ARBs at maximal tolerated dose or both of them.

3. CKD grade 1-3

4. Diabetic retinopathy (discuss with Zaid)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Proteinuria of non diabetic origin

2. Overlap Proteinuria with diabetic nephropathy

3. Other intercurrent illness (fever due to infection ….) that can interfere with the urine protein secretion.

4. Acute Kidney Injury.

5. CKD stage 4-5.

6. New renoprotective treatment in the last 6 months before enrollment.

7. Changes in dosage of one of the renoprotective drugs in the last 6 months before enrollment.

Study Design

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Diabetic Nephropathies
• Diabetic Nephropathy
• Kidney Diseases
• Proteinuria
• Renal Insufficiency, Chronic

Intervention

Drug:
• Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) ,phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors , CARNITINE
effect of MMF on diabetic nephropathy patients by evaluating its effect on proteinuria and progression of kidney disease of diabetic origin

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Nazareth hospital (EMMS)	Nazareth

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Nazareth Hospital, Israel	Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	proteinuria	16 time points over 1 year.	before beginging of the treatment - baseline, after 1,2,3,4 weeks, after 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 months of the beginning of the treatment	Yes