NCT07280585RecruitingPhase 3
STOP-PKD: SGLT2-inhibition to Improve Prognosis in Polycystic Kidney Disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is the most common genetic cause of kidney failure. The only approved treatment for ADPKD - tolvaptan - is limited in its use by massive therapy-associated polyuria. This trial tests if the SGLT2-inhibitor dapagliflozin slows down the loss of kidney function in ADPKD.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 420 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 24 Sept 2025
- Start date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Primary completion date
- 15 May 2030
- Lead sponsor
- University of Cologne
- Diseases
- Polycystic kidney disease
- NCT number
- NCT07280585
- EU CT number
- 2025-521276-59-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 420
- From 16 Dec 2025 to the primary completion date, 15 May 2030
- 30 sites in 4 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Treatment with tolvaptan, somatostatin analogue, lithium or SGLT2i within the last 3 months before screening
- Known intolerance of the study medication ingredients
Other illness
- Medical history of diabetic ketoacidosis, necrotizing fasciitis or organ transplantation
- Diabetes mellitus type 1 or any type of diabetes mellitus due to insulin deficiency
- Uncontrolled ongoing urinary tract or genital infections
- Uncontrolled grade 2 hypertension (\>160/100 mmHg)
- Primary renal disease other than ADPKD
Lab values
- Hepatic impairment (aspartate transaminase \[AST\] or alanine transaminase \[ALT\]\>3x the up-per limit of normal \[ULN\]; or total bilirubin \>2x ULN at time of enrolment)
Other
- Symptomatic hypotension, or systolic blood pressure \<90 mmHg
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding or women of child-bearing potential not using effective contraception method
- Not able to comply with the study protocol, in the investigator's judgement
- Not able to provide informed consent
- Participation in any other interventional clinical trial in the last 2 months
Who the study is looking for
- Male and female patients with ADPKD (modified Ravine criteria) ≥ 18 and ≤ 60 years
- Patients 18 - 39 years: eGFR ≥25 ml/min; patients 40 - 60 years: eGFR ≥25 and \<90 ml/min/1.73 m2
- Indicators of rapid progression, either of the following:
- Mayo class 1D-E
- Mayo class 1C AND EITHER
- Truncating PKD1 mutation OR
- eGFR loss \> 3ml/min/year (determined by ≥ 4 creatinine values within 4 years, ≥ 6 months measurement intervals) OR
- PROPKD score \> 6 (patient history)
- IF patient is on ACE-I /ARBs: stable dose for 4 weeks before screening
Age in the registry: 18 years to 60 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (30)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vorarlberger Krankenhaus-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Feldkirch | Austria | Recruiting |
| Medizinische Universitaet Innsbruck Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Innsbruck | Austria | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Aachen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aachen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Cologne AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cologne | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dortmund | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden an der Technischen Universitaet Dresden AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dresden | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Duesseldorf AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duesseldorf | Germany | Recruiting |
| Goethe University Frankfurt Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt Am Main | Germany | Recruiting |
| Medical Center- University of Freiburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Freiburg im Breisgau | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsmedizin Goettingen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Goettingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Zentrum Fuer Nieren Hochdruck Und Stoffwechselerkrankungen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hanover | Germany | Recruiting |
| Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hanover | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Jena KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jena | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kiel | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaet Leipzig Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leipzig | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Luebeck | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mainz | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM Klinikum) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| LMU Klinikum Muenchen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Nuernberg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nuremberg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart gKAöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stuttgart | Germany | Recruiting |
| Robert Bosch Gesellschaft fuer medizinische Forschung mbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stuttgart | Germany | Recruiting |
| Fundació Puigvert Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Not yet recruiting |
| Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - Institut de Recerca Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Not yet recruiting |
| Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Groningen | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leiden | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
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