The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Zortress oral tablets for the prevention of rejection of kidney transplants in adult patients at low-to-moderate immunologic risk.
Zortress is to be given in combination with reduced doses of the calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) cyclosporine, as well as basiliximab and corticosteroids. Under the brand name Certican®, everolimus is already an established part of the immunosuppressive regimen for transplant patients in more than 70 countries outside the US.
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