Low Dose Irradiation for Small Bowel Transplant

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00382486

Recruitment Status : Completed

First Posted : September 29, 2006

Last Update Posted : December 17, 2007

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University of Pittsburgh

Study Description

Brief Summary:

The specific aims of this study is to improve short and long-term patient and graft survival, to reduce the incidence and severity of allograft rejection, to reduce the incidence of infection and to reduce and/or eventually eliminate the need for long-term immunosuppression.

Condition or disease	Intervention/treatment
Irreversible Intestinal Failure Allograft Rejection	Procedure: Reduce the risk of allograft rejection

Detailed Description:

The rationale behind this study involves the need to better manage rejection in the intestinal allograft recipient. Although tacrolimus based immunosuppression has made intestinal transplantation feasible, the requisite need for chronic high dose immunosuppression in order to control rejection has inhibited the wide spread clinical use and practicality of intestinal/multivisceral transplantation. The measures needed to prevent graft loss have frequently resulted in lethal infections, the leading cause of death. This trial is significant for determining if this new strategy of allograft immune-modulation with low dose ex-vivo irradiation and simultaneous done bone marrow cell infusion will favorably affect short and long term outcomes by reducing the risk of allograft rejection.

This trial is offered to all patients with irreversible intestinal failure who must undergo intestinal, combined liver-intestinal, and multivisceral transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Patients are recruited through the referral system and no cold calling is carried out. Patient confidentiality is maintained by the use of codes to identify the study participants. All data is stored in a locked filing cabinets as a means to protect participants against a breach of confidentiality. This trial involves ex-vivo low dose irradiation of the intestinal allograft with or without adjunct donor bone marrow cell infusion. An intravenous bone marrow cell infusion is prepared form the thoracolumbar vertebral bodies harvested from cadaveric donors. Control subjects will be those who refuse to be enrolled in the study or those for whom donor bone marrow is not available. All patients will be treated perioperatively with thymoglobulin, a rabbit polyclonal anti-lymphocyte globulin at a dose of 5-10 mg/kg. Tacrolimus will be given in a standard fashion and from the outset as a single monotherapeutic agent to prevent early allograft rejection and promote graft acceptance. All patients will be monitored for rejection, graft function, opportunistic infections and GVHD. Surveillance endoscopy with guided mucosal biopsies will be obtained according to the standard protocol. Attention will be paid for any clinicopathologic changes suggestive of acute or chronic irradiation injuries.

The study closed for enrollment as of 9/30/03.

Study Design


Study Type :	Observational
Enrollment :	100 participants
Time Perspective:	Prospective
Official Title:	Low Dose Ex-Vivo X-Irradiation of the Allograft and Simultaneous Bone Marrow Cell Infusion to Enhance Intestinal/Multivisceral Allograft Survival
Study Start Date :	July 2001
Actual Study Completion Date :	September 2003

Groups and Cohorts

Outcome Measures

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study:	17 Years to 70 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:	All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

all patients between 17 and 70 who are diagnosed with intestinal failure awaiting intestinal/multivisceral transplant

Exclusion Criteria:

active systemic/abdominal infections
incurable malignancy
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
severe cardiopulmonary insufficiency
current alcoholism
pregnant female

Contacts and Locations

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Locations


United States, Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Pittsburgh

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Kareem M Abu-Elmagd, MD	University of Pittsburgh

More Information


ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00382486 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	0311041
First Posted:	September 29, 2006 Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted:	December 17, 2007
Last Verified:	December 2007

Keywords provided by University of Pittsburgh:


Intestinal transplant Bone marrow Irradiation of allograft

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