Although liver transplantation provide a option to cure patients suffering with decompensated liver cirrhosis this condition, lack of donors, postoperative complications, especially rejection, and high cost limit its application. Bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) have been shown to replace hepatocytes in injured liver, effectively rescued experimental liver failure and contributed to liver regeneration, which suggest the novel and promising therapeutic strategy In this study, the safety and efficacy of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) transplantation for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis will be evaluated.
To investigate the safety and efficacy of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells transplantation in patients of decompensated liver cirrhosis.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
patients will receive the conventional therapy plus low dose hUC-MSCs treatment
patients will receive conventional therapy plus medium dose hUC-MSCs treatment
patients will receive conventional therapy plus high dose hUC-MSCs treatment
Shanghai Liver Disease Research Center, the Nanjing Military Command (Shanghai 85 Hospital)
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
Overall Survival (OS)
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
Liver function improvement
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
The size of liver and the width of portal venous
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma within 1 year
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
Child-Pugh score, MELD score,SF36-quality of life (SF36-QOL)
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
The clinical symptom improvement(including appetite, debilitation, abdominal distension, edema of lower limbs, et al )
Time frame: 1 year after treatment
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