Attenuating Ischemia Reperfusion Injury After Living Donor Renal Transplantation
Kidney Transplantation, Renal Transplantation, Reperfusion Injury
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Kidney Transplantation focused on measuring living donation, kidney transplantation, delayed graft function, ischemia reperfusion injury
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be able to provide written informed consent.
- All recipients of a kidney from a living donor only, either a de novo transplant, or re-transplant
- All patients evaluated and listed with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) who are eligible to receive a kidney transplant under GUH's standard protocol.
- Patients between 18-80 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recipients of multi-organ transplant
- Patients with known allergies of hypersensitivities to any of the drugs used in this protocol
- Recipients of kidneys from a deceased donor
- Recipients who are co-infected with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or HIV
- Women who are pregnant
- Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, including women whose career, lifestyle or sexual orientation precludes intercourse with a male partner unless they agree to avoid pregnancy throughout the duration of the trial and for 3 months following the trial.
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
Active Comparator
pre-transplant immunosuppression
pre-transplant induction
standard of care
subjects in this arm will receive Myfortic 720mg twice daily for 7 days prior to transplantation. Intra-operatively, the donor kidney will receive an infusion of Thymoglobulin, prior to the transplantation.
subjects in this arm will not receive any pre-transplant immunosuppression. However, the donor kidney will receive an infusion of Thymoglobulin prior to transplantation.
subjects in this arm will not receive any pre-transplant immunosuppression, and the donor kidney will not receive an additional dose of Thymoglobulin prior to transplantation. This is the standard of care protocol for Georgetown University Hospital