Active clinical trials for "Graft vs Host Disease"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tolerability and preliminary efficacy of rhDNase I eye drops in patients with ocular Graft-vs.-Host disease (oGVHD).

Use of an oral topically-active glucocorticoid with limited side effects may control the gastrointestinal inflammatory process of GVHD and minimize glucocorticoid exposure.

The present protocol is a dose-finding and toxicity study in preparation of a randomised study comparing current standard treatment CSA/prednisolone with the new combination CSA/prednisolone/everolimus.

The purpose of this trial is to find out how effective Narrow Band-Ultraviolet Light B (NB-UVB) phototherapy is in treating oral cGVHD. NB-UVB Phototherapy involves exposing the inside of the mouth to light of a particular spectrum (a specific wavelength of light, 311nm) of the ultraviolet band, called NB-UVB. It is known that narrow band ultraviolet light therapy can improve symptoms in patients with skin chronic GVHD.

The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of ECP treatment combined with high dose corticosteroids versus high dose corticosteroids alone, in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed acute GvHD (Grades II to III) that developed within 100 days following an allo HPCT.

RATIONALE: Mycophenolate mofetil added to immunosuppressive treatment regimens may be effective in treating newly diagnosed chronic graft-versus-host disease caused by stem cell transplantation. It is not yet known whether immunosuppressive treatment regimens are more effective with or without mycophenolate mofetil in treating chronic graft-versus-host disease. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying whether the addition of mycophenolate mofetil improves the efficacy of immunosuppressive treatment regimens in patients with newly diagnosed chronic graft-versus-host disease.

This randomized placebo-controlled double-blind phase II trial tests whether fecal microorganism (microbiota) transplantation prevents severe acute graft versus host disease in adults undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Fecal microbiota transplantation involves receiving processed fecal material orally after allogeneic HCT in order to establish a healthy gut microbiota. Gut microbiota undergoes major alterations during allogeneic HCT because of antibiotic exposures, nutritional changes, and chemotherapy administration. Establishing a healthy gut microbiota via fecal transplantation may help prevent acute graft versus host disease in patients undergoing allogeneic HCT.

This is a two arm open label phase III clinical trial. Adult patients with hematological malignancies undergoing allogeneic HSCT from any donor are eligible for the study if they meet the standard criteria defined in the investigator's institutional standard operation procedures (SOPs), meet all inclusion criteria, and do not satisfy any exclusion criteria. Patients will receive reduced-intensity conditioning regimen of fludarabine, busulfan (treosulfan). Patients will receive PTCy at different dose (25 mg/kg/day vs 50 mg/kg/day on day +3,+4 in combination with calcineurin inhibitors and mofetil mycophenolate) as GvHD prophylaxis.

This is a clinical research study designed to evaluate whether the administration of a vaccine to patients after transplant consisting of a minor histocompatibility antigen (mHag peptide) mixed with G-CSF (a drug intended to stimulate the immune system) can stimulate increased graft versus leukemia (GVL) responses without causing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

This clinical trial studies biomarkers in predicting response in patients with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) undergoing extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP). ECP treats the patient's blood with ultraviolet light outside the body and kills the white blood cells before returning blood back into the patient's body. Studying samples of blood from patients with GVHD may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to GVHD.