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Setting: not yet available
Country: USA
Patients aged 18 years and above with a biopsy‐confirmed diagnosis of IgAN within 10 years, with 24‐hour urinary protein excretion that is > 1 g/day at baseline, eGFR of ≥ 30 and ≤9 0 mL/min/1.73 m2, currently on physician‐directed, stable treatment with RAS blockade (ACEI, ARB, direct renin inhibitors) and have a systolic BP of <150 mmHg and a diastolic BP of <100 mmHg at rest
Number: approximately 430 patients are to enrolled in two groups of 215 patients per arm
Mean age ± SD (years): not yet available
Sex (M/F): not yet available
Exclusion criteria: Treatment with immunosuppressants (e.g., AZA or CPA), cytotoxic drugs, or eculizumab within 24 weeks prior to screening; unwilling or unable to discontinue systemic corticosteroids 12 weeks prior to randomisation; female patients who are pregnant, breast feeding, or planning to become pregnant up through 12 weeks after the last dose of study drug, including possible re treatments; clinical or biological evidence of DM, systemic lupus erythematosus, IgA vasculitis (HSP), secondary IgAN, or other renal disease; history of renal transplantation; have a known hypersensitivity to any constituent of the investigational product; rapidly progressive GN; significant abnormalities in clinical laboratory values; BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2, history of HIV (HIV), hepatitis B infection and hepatitis C infection; diagnosis of a malignancy except for adequately treated and cured basal or squamous cell skin cancer, curatively treated in situ disease, or other cancer from which the patient has been disease‐free for ≥ 5 years; have received any other investigational drug or device or experimental procedures within 30 days of the screening visit
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