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NCT Number: NCT06851845

Clinical Outcomes of C3 Glomerulopathy and IC-MPGN in Russia: Hybrid Retrospective - Prospective Study

The study is planned to study specificity of the clinical course and treatment outcomes of C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) and Immune-complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN) in patients aged under 18 years and 18 years and older in the Russian population in 2025-2028. The primary objective of the study is to estimate the frequency of complete or partial remission 12 months after morphological verification of the diagnosis. Assessment of demographic, clinical and laboratory, morphological characteristics at diagnosis and their relationship with the disease outcomes, primarily the disease progression and development of chronic renal failure, will allow assessing the efficacy of treatment used in real clinical practice, disease prognosis and factors associated with unfavourable outcomes.

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Key information

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Willing to sign informed consent form. If the patient is under 18 years of age, the parent or legally acceptable representative of the child/adolescent who can participate in this study also signs the consent form.
  • Diagnosis of primary C3G or IC-MPGN confirmed by the results of morphological and clinical studies.
  • The results of serum creatinine level, proteinuria determination obtained not earlier than 4 weeks before the kidney biopsy
  • Index date (kidney biopsy) not earlier than March 2024 and not later than 11 months before signing the ICF
  • The estimated baseline GFR (using the CKD-EPI formula for persons aged over 18 years and the modified Schwarz formula for children) or the measured GFR is ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients participating in a clinical trial with the investigational product.
  • Patients with monoclonal gammopathies (myeloma, B-cell lymphoma/lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoplasmacytoma)
  • Patients with systemic autoimmune diseases and vasculitis (systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, Sjogren syndrome, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, ANCA vasculitis, cryoglobulinemia)
  • Patients with current or recent infections (viral hepatitis B, viral hepatitis C, infective endocarditis or sepsis, infected ventriculoatrial shunts, abscesses, meningococcal and other bacterial infections, protozoan infections)
  • Patients with any clinically significant acute disease within 30 days prior to kidney biopsy
  • Clinically significant concomitant kidney disease
  • Treatment with pegcetacoplan

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.

Treatment and study plan

No intervention

Other

Patients will receive medical care in accordance with the routine practice of disease treatment

Other names: Treatment includes the following options:, ACEi/ARB alone, ACEi/ARB + corticosteroids, ACEi/ARB + MMF, ACEi/ARB + SGLT2i, ACEi/ARB + MMF + corticosteroids, ACEi/ARB + cyclophosphamide, Corticosteroids alone, MMF alone, Cyclophosphamide alone, Corticosteroids + MMF, Rituximab, Anticomplement therapy, Other immunosuppressants

Primary outcomes

  1. Number and proportion of patients with overall (complete + partial) remission following the standard therapy in Russia

    Time frame: 12 months

    Complete response is defined as proteinuria <0.5 g/24 h with stable eGFR (less than 20% decline in eGFR from baseline without the need for renal replacement therapy).

    Partial response is defined as reduction of proteinuria at stable eGFR (no decrease of >20% of baseline value): >50% (from baseline) (in those with proteinuria <3.5 g/day or >3.5 g/day but without nephrotic syndrome (NS)) OR in ≥50% from baseline accompanied by a regression of NS (NS <3.5 g/day and blood albumin ≥30 g/L).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number and proportion of patients with complete remission

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Complete remission was defined as proteinuria <0.5 g/24 h with a stable eGFR (less than 20% decline in eGFR from baseline without the needs for renal replacement therapy).

  2. Number and proportion of patients with partial remission

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Partial remission was defined as a reduction in proteinuria at stable eGFR (no decrease of >20% of baseline): >50% (from baseline) (in those with proteinuria <3.5 g/day or >3.5 g/day but without nephrotic syndrome (NS)) OR in ≥50% from baseline accompanied by a regression of NS (NS: <3.5 g/day and blood albumin ≥30 g/L)

  3. Number and proportion of patients with relapse

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Clinical relapse was defined as a proteinuria >3.5 g/24h after achieving complete remission or, in those with partial remission, as an increase of proteinuria >50% compared with the lowest value during remission with recurrence of NS

  4. Number and proportion of patients with progression

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Composite progression defined as 40% eGFR decline from the baseline and/or eGFR <15 mL/min per 1.73 m2 and/or renal replacement therapy

  5. Number and proportion of patients with progression to end-stage kidney disease

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients with progression to end-stage kidney disease from index-date up to 12 months

  6. Number and proportion of died patients

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients who died from index date up to 12 months

  7. Time to start of maintenance dialysis

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from index date to start of maintenance dialysis

  8. Time from the diagnosis date to the start date of dialysis

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to the start date of dialysis

  9. Time from the start date of treatment to the start date of dialysis

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from first treatment date to the start date of dialysis

  10. Time from the diagnosis date to transplantation

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to transplantation

  11. Time from the diagnosis date to the date of complete remission

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to the date of complete remission

  12. Time from the diagnosis date to the date of partial remission

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to the date of partial remission

  13. Time from the diagnosis date to the date of overall remission (complete and partial remission)

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to the date of overall remission (complete and partial remission)

  14. Time to progression

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from the diagnosis date to progression

  15. Number and proportion of patients with a) an increase in eGFR by ≥15% from the baseline; b) decrease in eGFR by ≥15% from the baseline; c) stable eGFR (change up to 15%)

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients with a) an increase in eGFR by ≥15% from the baseline; b) decrease in eGFR by ≥15% from the baseline; c) stable eGFR (change up to 15%) from index date up to 12 months

  16. Time to 30%, 40% and 50% decline in eGFR

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Time in months from index date to 30%, 40% and 50% decline in eGFR

  17. Number and proportion of patients with proteinuria >1 g/24 h and eGFR ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients with proteinuria >1 g/24 h and eGFR ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2 from index date up to 12 months

  18. Number and proportion of patients with nephrotic syndrome

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients with nephrotic syndrome from index date up to 12 months

  19. Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with primary C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: Baseline

    Number and proportion of patients by age, gender, BMI, BSA, family history of kidney disease, transplant status, blood pressure, laboratory markers: serum creatinine level (µmol/L), eGFR, urinary blood cell (RBCs/hpf), proteinuria (g/24h), serum albumin (g/L); eGFR rate of change; chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage; proteinuria ≥1 g/24 h AND eGFR ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2

  20. Number of patients by morphologically verified disease form in patients with primary C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: Baseline

    Morphologically verified disease form: DDD (subject to electron microscopy), C3GN (subject to electron microscopy), C3G (in the absence of informative electron microscopy data), IC-MPGN.

  21. Number of patients with presence of serum complement markers, serum factor H, rare genetic variants

    Time frame: Baseline

    Number of patients with presence of serum complement markers (C3, C4, CH50, C5a), serum factor H, rare genetic variants at baseline

  22. Number and proportion of patients stratified by treatment sequence and specific regimen of treatment

    Time frame: Baseline; 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients stratified by treatment sequence and specific regimen of treatment

  23. Number and proportion of patients that discontinued a specific regimen of treatment at each line of therapy at any time during follow-up and reason for discontinuation for each cohort

    Time frame: Baseline; 6 months; 12 months

    Number and proportion of patients that discontinued a specific regimen of treatment at each line of therapy at any time during follow-up and reason for discontinuation for each cohort

  24. Number of exposed doses for non-continuous treatments (e.g., pulse therapy, rituximab infusion) in each cohort

    Time frame: Baseline; 6 months; 12 months

    Number of exposed doses for non-continuous treatments (e.g., pulse therapy, rituximab infusion) in each cohort

  25. Number of patients by qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative scores of active and chronic lesions

    Time frame: Baseline

    • mesangial proliferation (% of glomeruli),
    • endocapillary hypercellularity (% of glomeruli),
    • membranoproliferative morphology (thickening and/or double contouring of the capillary basement membranes),
    • leukocyte infiltration,
    • proportion of completely intact glomeruli (%)
    • proportion of cellular (%), fibrous (%), fibrocellular (%) crescents,
    • fibrinoid necrosis,
    • interstitial infiltration,
    • interstitial fibrosis (%),
    • tubular atrophy (%),
    • global and segmental glomerulosclerosis (quantitatively, % of all glomeruli)
    • arteriosclerosis and arteriolosclerosis
  26. Number of patients with signs of thrombotic microangiopathy in the biopsy specimen

    Time frame: Baseline

    Number of patients with signs of thrombotic microangiopathy in the biopsy specimen at baseline

  27. Number of patients with acute tubular necrosis

    Time frame: Baseline

    Number of patients with acute tubular necrosis at baseline

  28. Number of patients with presence of C1q, IgA, IgM, IgG, C3, kappa chain, lambda chain deposits

    Time frame: Baseline

    Number of patients with presence of C1q, IgA, IgM, IgG, C3, kappa chain, lambda chain deposits at baseline

  29. Patient-reported outcomes for C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 12 months

    • Descriptive adherence data based on question score
    • Patient-reported outcomes, SF-36 (RAND)
  30. Number of patients (%) with adverse events/serious adverse events by treatment option

    Time frame: 12 months

    Number of patients (%) with adverse events/serious adverse events by treatment option from index date up to 12 months

  31. Change from baseline of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) (with percentiles for children) at 6 and 12 month

  32. Change from baseline serum creatinine level (µmol/L) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline serum creatinine level (µmol/L) at 6 and 12 months

  33. Change from baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at 6 and 12 months

  34. Change from baseline eGFR rate of change over time (eGFR slope) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline eGFR rate of change over time (eGFR slope) at 6 and 12 months

  35. Change from baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage (number of patients, %) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage (number of patients, %) at 6 and 12 months

  36. Change from baseline red blood cell count in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline red blood cell (RBC) count at 6 and 12 months

  37. Change from baseline RBC casts in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline RBC casts at 6 and 12 months

  38. Change from baseline daily proteinuria (proteinuria in g/24 hours) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline daily proteinuria (proteinuria in g/24 hours) at 6 and 12 months

  39. Change from baseline proteinuria >1 g/24 h in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline proteinuria >1 g/24 h at 6 and 12 months

  40. Change from baseline eGFR ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2 in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline eGFR ≥30 mL/min per 1.73 m2 at 6 and 12 months

  41. Change from baseline number of patients with nephrotic syndrome (%) in patients with C3G (cohort 1), IC-MPGN (cohort 2), and overall

    Time frame: 6 months; 12 months

    Change from baseline number of patients with nephrotic syndrome (%) at 6 and 12 months

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

CONTACT

[email protected]

+41613241111

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

CONTACT

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Industry

Registry information

Acronym: CRYSTAL

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Feb 28, 2025
Registry last updated
Feb 28, 2025

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