Canagliflozin in Advanced Renal Disease With MRI Endpoints

Overview

This is a phase II, proof of concept, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial, assessing the effect of canagliflozin on cardiac structure and function in patients with advanced renal disease, including those on maintenance dialysis. Our primary aim is to determine the effect of canagliflozin on cardiac structure and function in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), compared with placebo. We hypothesize that canagliflozin will improve left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in patients with advanced CKD. Our secondary aims are to describe the effect of canagliflozin on other cardiac magnetic resonance imaging parameters and surrogate markers of efficacy in this population.

Detailed description

Patients with advanced renal disease, including those on maintenance dialysis, will be randomized to receive canagliflozin 300 mg orally once daily or matching placebo for one year. For patients who are not yet on renal replacement therapy, the study medication will be continued when they transition to dialysis or when they get a kidney transplant.

The prescription of all other medications, including dialysis prescription for dialysis-dependent patients, will be left to the treating physician's discretion. We will discourage changes to medications during follow-up unless deemed clinically necessary. All medications changes will be recorded at each visit.

Symptoms and adverse events will be monitored closely. Participants who experience adverse events classified as severe and probably or definitely related to the study medication will be withdrawn. Patients who develop intercurrent illnesses, are hospitalized, or have surgery (urgent or elective) will temporarily discontinue the drug.

Interventions

• Drug Canagliflozin 300Mg Tab
  Patients will get 1 pill of Canagliflozin 300 mg daily for one year.
• Drug Placebo
  Patients will get 1 pill of placebo daily for one year.

Primary outcome measures

• Change in left ventricular mass to volume ratio (LVMV) from baseline to 12 months, as assessed by cardiac MRI compared with placebo [Time frame: 12 months]

Secondary outcome measures (12)

• Changes in left ventricular (LV) and atrial volumes from baseline to 12 months compared with placebo [Time frame: 12 months]
• LV strain parameter changes from baseline to 12 months compared with placebo [Time frame: 12 months]
• Changes in myocardial edema and fibrosis from baseline to 12 months compared with placebo [Time frame: 12 months]
• Change in myocardial oxygenation reserve from baseline to 12 months compared with placebo [Time frame: 12 months]
• Composite of major adverse cardiovascular events [Time frame: 12 months]
• Death from any cause [Time frame: 12 months]
• Progression to kidney failure (only for patients not yet on maintenance dialysis). [Time frame: 12 months]
• Difference in distance in the 6-minute walk test at 12 months from baseline [Time frame: 12 months]
• Difference in dyspnea score at 12 months from baseline [Time frame: 12 months]
• Difference in quality of life at 12 months from baseline [Time frame: 12 months]
• Change in urine albumin to creatinine ratio (UACR) from baseline (only for patients not yet on maintenance dialysis) at 6 and 12 months [Time frame: 6 months and 12 months]
• Change in N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) [Time frame: 6 months and 12 months]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

• advanced CKD, defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 20 ml/min/1.73m2 not yet on dialysis OR incident hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis patients (i.e., who were started on dialysis in the last 6 months)\*

\* For patients who were not previously followed in a CKD clinic and for whom it is not clear whether dialysis was initiated after an acute deterioration in renal function that is potentially reversible, at least 90 days of dialysis will be required prior to enrolment. This criterion only applies to patients for whom baseline eGFR prior to the acute event was ≥ 20 ml/min/1.73m2 or was unknown. The average creatinine values over the last 12 months will be used to calculate baseline eGFR.

• LV hypertrophy, defined as LV mass > 130 g/m2 in men and 100 g/m2 in females OR hospitalization for heart failure or atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease in the last 12 months OR type 2 diabetes OR UACR > 200 mg/g on a morning spot urine collection (this criterion is not applicable to patients who are on dialysis and have a urine output < 500 ml per day).

Exclusion criteria

• type 1 diabetes,
• history of euglycemic ketoacidosis,
• known hypersensitivity to sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors,
• hemodynamic instability (defined as current use of parenteral inotropic agents),
• systolic BP < 90 mmHg,
• severe liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class C stage),
• acute hepatitis (defined as an alanine aminotransferase > 2.0 times the upper limit of normal \[ULN\] or total bilirubin >1.5 times the ULN),
• recurrent severe genital or urine infections,
• patients receiving digoxin, phenobarbital, phenytoin, rifampin, or ritonavir if these agents cannot be safely discontinued (due to inhibition of the P-glycoprotein mediated efflux of digoxin by canagliflozin or induction of Uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes by the other agents),
• cardiac MRI-incompatible cardiac devices (cardiac pacemaker, implanted cardiac defibrillator, internal pacing wires, Swan-Ganz catheter, aneurysm clips),
• claustrophobia,
• cochlear implants,
• metallic body in the eyes,
• pregnancy or breastfeeding,
• and any other medical condition considered to be a contra-indication by the study physician.

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation

Randomized

Model

Parallel assignment

Masking

Quadruple blind

Primary purpose

Treatment

Study locations

Canada · 1 center

• McGill University Health Center — Montreal

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06182839 · 2024-10313

Primary sources (government registries)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (US NIH)

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