Detection of Graft Versus Host Disease With [18F]F-AraG
Graft Versus Host Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional diagnostic trial for Graft Versus Host Disease focused on measuring PET-CT scan, [18F]F-AraG
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
Must understand and voluntarily have signed an Informed Consent after its contents have been fully explained.
- For patients highly suspected to have aGVHD and requiring systemic therapy, informed consent should be signed after biopsy taken to support clinical diagnosis.
- For patients at high risk for developing aGVHD, informed consent should be signed prior to transplant.
- For healthy volunteers only: Must have no known medical problems that would make undergoing the scan hazardous to the health of the patient or interfere with the results. In particular subjects should not have any cardiac or immunological disorders as these would likely affect the scan results. Subjects should have had a full physical exam within 6 months of the study. If healthy volunteers have not had a full medical exam within 6 months of the study, one of the nuclear medicine physicians will conduct the medical exam prior to any study procedures.
- For patients highly suspected to have aGVHD and requiring systemic therapy only: Taking steroid treatment for suspected aGVHD for 3 days or less.
- For patients at high risk for developing aGVHD only: Recipients of myeloablative or reduced intensity allogeneic transplants using either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells from HLA-matched or HLA-mismatched related or unrelated donors (protocols 9142, 9022, 9924) who have not yet been placed on any therapy for acute GVHD.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or nursing
- Individuals with known or suspected substance abuse, obtained by self-reporting.
- Uncontrolled infection
- Relapsed/persistent malignancy
- Currently receiving immunotherapy
Sites / Locations
- Stanford HospitalRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Highly suspected to already have aGVHD
High risk of developing aGVHD
Healthy Subjects
Patients highly suspected to have aGVHD. These patients will undergo a [18F]F-AraG PET-CT scan following a biopsy taken to confirm aGVHD.
Patients at high risk of developing aGVHD will undergo a [18F]F-AraG PET-CT scan on day 4 +/- 2 days post transplant. Additionally these patients will be scanned again between day 14-21 post transplant.
Healthy subject volunteers will undergo preliminary evaluation to ensure eligibility, receive and sign an informed consent, be enrolled in the trial, and then have a [18F]F-AraG PET-CT scan.