The goal is to investigate the safety of the conditioning regimen, and its ability to induce donor/recipient lymphohematopoietic chimerism without Chimerism Transition Syndrome (CTS), which may result in donor-specific unresponsiveness (tolerance) to the renal allograft in the absence of maintenance immunosuppression.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Conditioning regimen .Patients will receive Rituximab, Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, Thymic irradiation and Thymoglobulin
Recipients will receive a conditioning regimen that includes rituximab on study days -7 and -2, fludarabine 10mg/m2/day on days -6 to -3 (4 doses), cyclophosphamide (22.5mg/kg/day) on days -5 and -4, followed by local thymic irradiation (7 Gy) on day -1 and Siplizumabon days -1, 0, and +1. Combined kidney and bone marrow transplant will be performed on study day 0. Methylprednisolone will be started at 250 mg/day on day 0 and tapered to prednisone 20mg by day 10 after which it will be continued until day 20. Prophylaxis will be provided for hemorrhagic cystitis, PCP, fungal infection, CMV, and perioperative infection. All patients who require any blood transfusion will receive only leukocyte-depleted and irradiated blood products for a period of at least 52 weeks following transplantation. The proportion of patients successfully weaned off immunosuppression without chimerism transition syndrome (CTS) will be assessed.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Incidence of Transient Chimerism
Time frame: 36 months after immunosuppression withdrawal
Incidence of Chimerism Transition Syndrome
Time frame: 36 months after immunosuppression withdrawal
Incidence of tolerance induction
Time frame: 36 months after immunosuppression withdrawal
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