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Reducing the Risk of Transplant Rejection: Simultaneous Kidney and Bone Marrow Transplant
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Study NCT00063817   Information provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
First Received: July 7, 2003   Last Updated: May 13, 2009   History of Changes

July 7, 2003
May 13, 2009
June 2003
January 2009   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
  • Renal allograft acceptance [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Ability to discontinue immunosuppressive therapy [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Renal allograft acceptance
  • Ability to discontinue immunosuppressive therapy
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00063817 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
  • Donor-specific tolerance and chimerism [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Immune reconstitution [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Safety profile of the conditioning regimen [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Donor-specific tolerance and chimerism
  • Immune reconstitution
  • Safety profile of the conditioning regimen
 
Reducing the Risk of Transplant Rejection: Simultaneous Kidney and Bone Marrow Transplant
Renal Allograft Tolerance Through Mixed Chimerism

This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of a combination kidney and bone marrow transplant from a relative with the same (or nearly the same) blood cell type as the transplant recipient. An investigational medication will be given prior to and after the transplant to help protect the transplanted kidney from attack by the body's immune system.

Of the two currently available treatments for kidney failure, long-term dialysis and kidney transplantation, only kidney transplantation provides a potential cure. After a kidney transplant, the body's immune system recognizes the kidney as foreign and tries to attack and destroy it in a process called rejection. To avoid rejection, patients must take medications called immunosuppressants or anti-rejection drugs. It is believed that by transplanting bone marrow at the same time as a solid organ such as a kidney, a state of "mixed chimerism" (a mixing of the donor and recipient's immune system) can be achieved. Mixed chimerism may prevent rejection without the need for anti-rejection drugs.

Patients in this study will receive a simultaneous bone marrow and kidney transplant from the same living related donor in an attempt to establish mixed chimerism. Prior to transplantation, patients will undergo a "conditioning regimen" involving cyclophosphamide chemotherapy, radiation to the thymus gland, and four immunosuppressive medications: cyclosporine A, a man-made antibody known as rituximab to suppress B cells, a short course of steroids, and a T-cell depleting antibody known as MEDI-507. MEDI-507 is an investigational medication that has not been approved by the FDA. The primary goal of the study is to investigate the safety of the conditioning regimen and its ability to promote mixed chimerism so that the transplanted kidney is not destroyed. The study will also determine whether patients with mixed chimerism can eventually be safely removed from long-term immunosuppressive therapy following transplantation.

Patients will be assessed before and after transplantation and will be actively followed for 24 months. Patients will be monitored for graft rejection and medication toxicity. After Month 24, the study will continue with an additional 36 months of medical record-based surveillance.

Phase I
Interventional
Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
  • Kidney Failure
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic
  • Drug: MEDI-507
  • Procedure: Combined kidney and bone marrow transplant
  • Drug: Cyclosporine A
  • Drug: Rituximab
  • Drug: Corticosteroids
Experimental: Conditioning regimen consisting of cyclosporine A, rituximab, a short course of corticosteroids, and MEDI-507, followed by bone marrow and kidney transplantation occurring at the same time
 

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.
 
Active, not recruiting
5
July 2009
January 2009   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • End-stage renal disease (ESRD) without prior sensitization (defined as Panel Reactive Antibody [PRA] greater than 0%) within the 60 days prior to transplant as measured by cytotoxicity assays, ELISA, and flow cytometry
  • Undergoing a first or second transplant
  • Receiving a transplant from a living related donor who is ABO (blood type) compatible and haploidentical (3, 4, or 5 antigen match by serologic typing)
  • Cardiac ejection fraction greater than 40%
  • Forced expiratory volume (FEV1) greater than 50%
  • Liver function tests, bilirubin, and coagulation studies less than 2 X normal
  • White blood cells greater than 2000/mm3
  • Platelets greater than 100,000/mm3

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Positive donor lymphocyte cross-match
  • HIV-1 infected
  • Positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg)
  • Hepatitis C virus infected
  • History of cancer
  • Prior dose-limiting radiation therapy
  • Pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning pregnancy within the time frame of the study
  • Enrolled in another investigational drug study within 30 days prior to study entry
  • Receiving maintenance immunosuppression within 3 months before the conditioning regimen begins
Both
18 Years to 55 Years
No
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United States
 
NCT00063817
Associate Director, Clinical Research Program, DAIT/NIAID
DAIT ITN010ST, DAIT NKD03
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Immune Tolerance Network
Principal Investigator: David H. Sachs, MD Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator: A. Benedict Cosimi, MD Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
December 2007

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