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Renal Allograft Tolerance Through Mixed Chimerism - SMC/MGH
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
The goal is to investigate the safety of the conditioning regimen, and its ability to induce donor/recipient lymphohematopoietic chimerism without Chimerism Transition Syndrome (CTS), which may result in donor-specific unresponsiveness (tolerance) to the renal allograft in the absence of maintenance immunosuppression.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
20
Start Date
2021-09-01
Completion Date
2027-06
Last Updated
2025-12-09
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Rituximab, Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, Thymic irradiation and Siplizumab
Conditioning regimen .Patients will receive Rituximab, Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, Thymic irradiation and Thymoglobulin
Combined bone marrow and kidney transplant
Recipients will receive a conditioning regimen that includes rituximab on study days -7 and -2, fludarabine 10mg/m2/day on days -6 to -3 (4 doses), cyclophosphamide (22.5mg/kg/day) on days -5 and -4, followed by local thymic irradiation (7 Gy) on day -1 and Siplizumabon days -1, 0, and +1. Combined kidney and bone marrow transplant will be performed on study day 0. Methylprednisolone will be started at 250 mg/day on day 0 and tapered to prednisone 20mg by day 10 after which it will be continued until day 20. Prophylaxis will be provided for hemorrhagic cystitis, PCP, fungal infection, CMV, and perioperative infection. All patients who require any blood transfusion will receive only leukocyte-depleted and irradiated blood products for a period of at least 52 weeks following transplantation. The proportion of patients successfully weaned off immunosuppression without chimerism transition syndrome (CTS) will be assessed.
Locations (1)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States