Active clinical trials for "Graft vs Host Disease"

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of palifermin versus placebo in the reduction of severe acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) and severe oral mucositis.

To assess safety and efficacy of the patients with MR4 therapy in GVHD prophylaxis study who are eligible for the administration after 100 days post transplant (up to 1 year)

This trial will test the hypothesis that the combination of sirolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and bortezomib will be effective in preventing both acute and chronic GVHD after reduced intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

The objectives of this study are as follows: To demonstrate the safety of escalating doses of opebacan in subjects undergoing myeloablative allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation To determine the pharmacokinetics of opebacan in subjects undergoing myeloablative allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation To determine if IV administration of opebacan is associated with changes in biological markers for inflammation To develop preliminary descriptive data on the occurrence and severity of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation related complications, including aGvHD

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and gather additional safety information for Prochymal® in participants who have failed to respond to steroid treatment of Grades B-D acute GVHD.

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and busulfan, before a donor peripheral stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of abnormal and cancer cells. It also stops the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune system and help destroy any remaining abnormal or cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving antithymocyte globulin, tacrolimus, and methotrexate before or after transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving fludarabine together with busulfan followed by donor peripheral stem cell transplant and antithymocyte globulin, tacrolimus, and methotrexate works in treating patients with myeloid cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine if the incidence of Graft vs. Host Disease (GVHD) after non-myeloablative transplantation can be reduced by using a combination of three immune suppressive medication; sirolimus, tacrolimus and methotrexate.

Both patients and marrow donors are treated on Regimen A; patients then proceed to Regimen B. The following acronyms are used: ABM Allogeneic Bone Marrow BU Busulfan, NSC-750 CF Leucovorin calcium, NSC-3590 CTX Cyclophosphamide, NSC-26271 G-CSF Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (source not specified) GM-CSF Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (Hoechst/Immunex), NSC-613795 GVHD Graft-vs.-Host Disease Mesna Mercaptoethane sulfonate, NSC-113891 MTX Methotrexate, NSC-740 PP Unconjugated Myeloma Immunoglobulin plasma paraprotein, NSC-684150 PP-KLH Myeloma immunoglobulin plasma paraprotein vaccine, NSC-678327, with keyhole limpet hemocyanin TBI Total-Body Irradiation TSPA Thiotepa, NSC-6396 Regimen A (Donor and Patient): Vaccine Therapy with Immunoadjuvant. PP-KLH (individual myeloma immunoglobulin plasma paraprotein vaccine prepared from recipient's plasma paraprotein and conjugated with KLH); and PP; with GM-CSF. Regimen B (Patient): Myeloablative Radiotherapy and 2-Drug Combination Chemotherapy or 2-Drug Combination Myeloablative Chemotherapy followed by Hematopoietic Rescue with Growth Factor Support and GVHD Prophylaxis followed by Vaccine Therapy with Immunoadjuvant. TBI; and CTX/TSPA; or BU/CTX; followed by ABM; with G-CSF; and CYSP; MTX/CF; followed by PP-KLH; with GM-CSF.

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the effects of bile externalization and antibiotic gut sterilization on the pharmacokinetics of mycophenolate mofetil in patients who have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation. II. Correlate serum concentrations of mycophenolic acid with inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase activity in these patients.

The primary objective of the study is to examine the efficacy of ruxolitinib in patients with sclerotic chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).