Active clinical trials for "Graft vs Host Disease"

Primary Objective: 1. To determine the feasibility of conducting a multi-site longitudinal observational study of patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

Objectives: To show feasibility and reproducibility of performing a multiplex ligation-dependent amplification procedure (RT-MLPA) To describe the profile of changes in inflammatory gene products, using RT-MLPA, in pediatric patients receiving stem cell transplant To determine if changes in a specific inflammatory product, or a combination of inflammatory products, can predict grade 2-4 acute graft-versus-host disease

MaaT013 is still in clinical development phase and is not approved yet for marketing in any region. During the development program, MaaT Pharma has undertaken initial development with closely related product candidates, leading to the Phase II HERACLES study in which MaaT013 preliminary safety and efficacy were assessed in the context of steroid-resistant, gastrointestinal aGraft versus Host Disease (SR-GI-aGvHD). In addition, a pivotal Phase III study (ARES trial) is planned. In the absence of medical options in patients with gastrointestinal acute GvHD refractory to multiple lines of treatment, this early access program has been implemented.

We believe that CEC, besides coming from cells shedding from patient vasculature, could partly belong to donor, originating from the cellular graft.

The purpose of this research study is to better understand the onset and course of graft versus host disease (GVHD)and other immune-mediated disorders after stem cell transplant.

Blood contains different kinds of cells, white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. In order to treat certain diseases, specific cell types can be removed from blood and transplanted into patients. The process of removing white blood cells for the treatment of leukemia is called apheresis. This study will make available blood cell collections from volunteers genetically matched to various degrees with recipients in order to test and, if necessary, refine the process of removing white blood cell T-lymphocytes....

This study is designed to collect longitudinal biological samples from patients after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) cared for at multiple bone marrow transplant centers to validate biomarkers of both acute and chronic GVHD as well as for use in future unspecified research. The centers include Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston's Children's Hospital, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Texas Children's Hospital, Children's National Medical Center, and Indiana University Simon Cancer Center.

The specific objectives of this study are: Primary: 1)To determine the relationship between cyclosporine AUC achieved prior to engraftment and severe aGVHD (grade III and IV) Secondary: To determine the relationship between individual concentration-time points achieved prior to engraftment and severe aGVHD (grade III and IV) To validate the previously developed LSS to determine cyclosporine AUC after IV administration at steady state and To describe the relationship between cyclosporine AUC and individual concentration-time points achieved prior to engraftment and other HSCT outcomes (clinically significant aGVHD (grade II to IV), hypertension, engraftment failure, relapse

In this study, Laser Doppler Flowmetry (LDF), Laser Doppler Imaging (LDI), Orthogonal Polarization Spectral Imaging (OPSI), Nail fold video capillaroscopy (NVC) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) will be used to assess differences in microvascular function and density of oral mucosa and skin in subjects with 1) autoimmune diseases with cutaneous involvement: systemic sclerosis (SSc), morphea, dermatomyositis, cutaneous lupus and vasculitis, 2) sickle cell disease (SCD) and 3) chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) compared to healthy subjects. The microvascular changes will be compared to overall treatment response in patients with scleroderma and chronic GVHD as assessments will be made before and after the patients start treatment for their diseases and determine if these imaging techniques provide valuable and reproducible data when assessing a patient's response to treatment for those diseases. In addition, the application of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) in determining cutaneous thickness in patients with SSc, GVHD and morphea will be evaluated. The investigators hypothesize that the vascular and dermal structures are altered in patients with autoimmune disease, SCD and chronic GVHD. In addition, they hypothesize that imaging modalities such as LDF, LDI, OCT, NVC, OPSI and ARFI can quantify such structural alterations and can be used to 1) detect early disease activity, 2) quantify and assess response to therapy and 3) quantify and correlate with overall disease activity.

Leukotac (inolimomab) is not approved yet for marketing in any region. In the absence of medical options and based on the safety and efficacy data obtained during the clinical development program (in a phase III (INO-107) and in a Long Term Follow Up study), the French National Agency for the Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) granted a Temporary Authorisation for Use (ATU) so-called cohort ATU (cATU) for LEUKOTAC® (inolimomab) and approved the temporary use protocol . This early access program has been granted to Leukotac (inolimomab) in adults and in children over 28 days of age, for treatment of acute cortico-resistant or cortico-dependent grades II-IV acute graft versus host disease (GvHD) according to the Glucksberg classification after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.