International Randomized Study of the TransMedics Organ Care System (OCS Lung) for Lung Preservation and Transplantation (INSPIRE)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01630434 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : June 28, 2012
Results First Posted : July 7, 2022
Last Update Posted : July 7, 2022
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Lung Preservation | Device: OCS Lung Device: Cold flush and storage | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 320 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Prospective, International, Multi-Center, Randomized Clinical Investigation of TransMedics Organ Care System (OCS LUNG) for Lung Preservation and Transplantation |
Study Start Date : | November 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | September 2014 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | April 2016 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: OCS Lung (Treatment Group)
The OCS Lung, which is a portable, integrated platform designed to maintain adult donor lungs in a normothermic state through continuous normothermic perfusion and ventilation, will be used to preserve and transport donor lungs.
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Device: OCS Lung
OCS Lung will be used to preserve the donor lungs (Treatment Group). |
Active Comparator: Cold flush and storage (Control Group)
Donor lungs will be preserved using cold flush and storage (control group)
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Device: Cold flush and storage
Donor lungs will preserved using standard cold flush and storage
Other Name: Commercially available cold preservation solution |
- A Composite of Patient Survival at Day 30 Post Transplantation, and Absence of International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Primary Graft Dysfunction (PGD3) Grade 3 Within the First 72 Hours Post-transplantation. [ Time Frame: Day 30 after transplantation ]This composite is a single outcome measure. Primary graft dysfunction is graded on a scale of 0 to 3 according to the 2005 ISHLT PGD grading consensus. Grade 0 is considered the least severe and grade 3 is considered a more severe outcome.
- Participants With International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) PGD Grade 3 at 72 Hours Post-transplantation [ Time Frame: 72 hours after transplantation ]Primary graft dysfunction is graded on a scale of 0 to 3 according to the 2005 ISHLT PGD grading consensus. Grade 0 is considered the least severe and grade 3 is considered a more severe outcome.
- Participants With ISHLT PGD Grade 2 or 3 at 72 Hours Post-transplantation [ Time Frame: 72 hours after transplantation ]Primary graft dysfunction is graded on a scale of 0 to 3 according to the 2005 ISHLT PGD grading consensus. Grade 0 is considered the least severe and grade 3 is considered a more severe outcome.
- Patient Survival at Day 30 [ Time Frame: Day 30 ]
- Primary Safety Endpoint: Lung Graft-related Serious Adverse Events (LGRSAEs) Through 30-days Post-transplant Per Subject [ Time Frame: 30 days post-transplant ]An LGRSAE event is defined as the occurrence of any of the following four categories of adverse events that are also serious; acute rejection, respiratory failure, bronchial anastomotic complication, and major pulmonary-related infection.
- Long-term Survival: 24-month Survival [ Time Frame: 24 months ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Registered primary double-lung transplant candidate
- Age > or equal to 18
- Signed: 1) written informed consent document and 2) authorization to use and disclose protected health information
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior solid organ or bone marrow transplant
- Single lung recipient
- Multiple organ transplant recipient
- Chronic use of hemodialysis or diagnosis of chronic renal insufficiency

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01630434

Study Director: | Abbas Ardehali, MD | Ronald Reagan Medical Center, UCLA | |
Study Director: | Dirk van Raemodonck, MD | UZ Leuven, Belgium | |
Study Director: | Gregor Warnecke, MD | Hannover Medical Center, Germany |
Responsible Party: | TransMedics |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01630434 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
OCS-LUN-03-2010 |
First Posted: | June 28, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | July 7, 2022 |
Last Update Posted: | July 7, 2022 |
Last Verified: | May 2016 |