Active clinical trials for "Graft vs Host Disease"

The investigators hypothesize that adding carfilzomib to standard conditioning regimen for allo-HCT for advanced or high-risk hematologic malignancies will decrease post-transplant relapse and treatment-related mortality by decreasing severe GVHD, leading to overall improvement in transplant outcomes.

The purpose is to determine if the addition of Maraviroc to a standard transplant regimen will reduce the incidence of graft versus host disease in children and young adults after a stem cell transplant.

This is a INTERVENTIONAL TRANSPLANTATION STUDY WITHOUT DRUGS. The INTERVENTION is represented by the INFUSION of DONOR T REGULATORY CELL-ENRICHED LYMPHOCYTES to PATIENTS suffering from REFRACTORY CHRONIC GVHD after ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION. The study includes a DOSE ESCALATION PHASE followed by a MTD PHASE as detailed in the following chapter. The primary objective of the dose escalation study will be SAFETY, leading to the definition of the MTD of T reg cells. For the MTD study the primary objective will be the OVERALL RESPONSE RATE at three months after the 3rd Treg infusion. The study is single center single arm open label and includes a DOSE ESCALATION phase followed by an EXTENDED PHASE with the MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE (MTD). The aim of the study is to assess whether multiple infusions of donor-derived purified T regulatory cells (T reg DLI) in patients with steroid-refractory chronic GVHD is safe and whether it may induce clinical remission of GVHD.

This is a multicenter prospective phase IIa dose escalation and phase IIa expansion cohort clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of efprezimod alfa for acute GVHD prophylaxis.

This study will investigate whether bortezomib can control the immune system and can be used to treat GVHD. Bortezomib has been used with not too many serious side effects in patients with multiple myeloma who will undergo transplant and also for acute graft versus host disease.

Poor graft function (PGF) is a common complication after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, which was associated with high mortality. The pathogenesis fo PGF was poorly understood. Infusion of donor peripheral cell harvest was effective for some patients with PGF in our preliminary study. This present study aimed to explore the efficacy of peripheral cell harvest for poor graft function.

Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) is a common complication of bone marrow or hematopoietic cell transplant from another person (allogeneic transplant). This study will determine if subjects with steroid dependent/refractory cGVHD can tolerate infusion of donor regulatory T cells and whether their cGVHD responds to the infusion.

This phase II trial studies how well ixazomib citrate works in treating patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease. Chronic graft-versus-host disease is a complication of a donor bone marrow or blood cell transplant, usually occurring more than three months after transplant, in which donor cells damage the host tissue. Ixazomib citrate may be an effective treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Bronchiolitis Obliterans (BO) is an obstructive lung disease that can affect individuals that have undergone a lung or hematopoietic stem cell transplant. BO has been studied most extensively in lung transplant recipients, where it is considered to represent chronic lung rejection. It is the leading cause of death after lung transplant, with mortality rates up to 55 percent. In hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, BO is thought to be a manifestation of chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). Up to 45 percent of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at the NHLBI develop a decline in pulmonary function. Conventional therapy for patients who develop BO consists of augmentation of systemic immunosuppressants. Systemic immunosuppression has limited efficacy for BO and is associated with deleterious consequences including increased risk of infections and decreased graft-versus tumor/leukemia effects. Recently, cyclosporine inhalation solution (CIS) in solution with propylene glycol has been shown to improve overall survival and chronic rejection-free survival in lung transplant patients. These findings suggest targeted delivery of immunosuppressive therapy to the diseased organ warrants further investigation as this may minimize the morbidity associated with systemic immunosuppression. However, there currently exists limited data regarding the overall efficacy of inhaled cyclosporine to treat established BO following lung transplantation. Furthermore, inhaled cyclosporine has not been studied in the treatment of BO following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Here, we propose to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy, of inhaled CIS for the treatment of BO. Enrollment will be offered to subjects who have completed the end of study (week 18 visit) for the initial protocol (Phase II Trial of CIS in lung transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients for treatment of Bronchiolitis Obliterans) and who have shown evidence of benefit (either an improvement or stabilization) in BO/BOS with CIS treatment. Clinical parameters, including pulmonary function tests, will be measured in addition to laboratory markers of the anti-inflammatory response to CIS. Adverse events associated with extended treatment with CIS will be recorded. The primary objective is to provide long-term safety and efficacy data for the use of CIS in hematopoietic transplant patients and lung transplant patients with established BO. Secondary objectives include investigation of the inflammatory pathways that lead to chronic BO and ascertainment of the long term anti-inflammatory effects of this CSA preparation ex vivo and in vivo. Primary endpoint is the efficacy of extended use CIS for BO/BOS. Secondary endpoints include the toxicity profile (adverse events), improvement in high resolution chest CT images, results of peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar cytokine arrays to assess secondary markers of inflammation, and functional capacity measurements using a six-minute walk test.

This phase I/II trial evaluates the efficacy and adverse effects of alpha 1 anti-trypsin (AAT) for the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.