The therapy under investigation is the addition of 300 000 IU of vitamin A and 100 000 IU of vitamin D before conditioning. The study will include patients with malignant diseases in hematologic response with indications for allogeneic transplantation with matched related or matched unrelated donor.
Currently there is an emerging evidence of gut microbiota role in major complications of HCT, including GVHD, oral mucositis, infectious complications due to multi-drug resistant bacteria in the gut. Early exhaustion of most intestinal bacterial phyla after HSCT is documented in many studies. This effect of intensive anti-infectious therapy is well known. Most authors explain the disruption of intestinal microbiota by massive antibiotic treatment in order to prevent infectious complications due to immune deficiency following HCT. Early decrease in anaerobic bacteria (phylum Firmicutes) is revealed in many studies, with subsequent recovery of these bacterial populations within next 2 months. This time dynamics is in accordance with reported data on depletion of certain anaerobic gut bacteria, e.g., Ruminococcus, Faecalibacterium spp., Roseburia, Blautia post-transplant, being associated with severe complications in HCT patients. These results are in accordance with severe posttransplant dysbiosis at different mucosal sites post-HCT, as shown elsewhere by routine bacteriology techniques. The metabolism of bacteria with positive effect on GVHD includes both vitamin D and vitamin A. It was demonstrated that Ruminococcus abundance is dependent on vitamin A and D intake. Another bacteria genera Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, which is also reported to produce butyrate and reduce GVHD is also dependent on abundance of vitamin A. The big phylum Firmicutes are also dependant on vitamin D and their abundance is reported to be associated with lower incidence of immune complications and suppression of antibiotic-resistant strains. To summarize the idea of the study is based on modulation of gut microbiota, which in term may result in lower incidence of GVHD and toxic complications of HCT.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
220
300 000 IU single dose orally
100 000 IU single dose orally
RM Gorbacheva Research Institute
Saint Petersburg, Russia
RECRUITINGCumulative incidence of gastrointestinal acute GVHD
Cumulative incidence of patients with acute GVHD II-IV grade, competing risk is death, relapse and primary graft failure
Time frame: 125 days
Incidence of HSCT-associated adverse events
Toxicity assessment is based on presence of NCI CTC AE 5.0 event grades 3-5. Veno-occlusive disease incidence and severity assessment is based on EBMT criteria 2020. Transplant-associated microangiopathy incidence assessment is based on Harmonization criteria. All toxicity measurements will be aggregated as severity scores
Time frame: 125 days
Infectious complications
Incidence of infections, including analysis of severe bacterial, fungal and viral infections incidence
Time frame: 125 days
Overall survival
Kaplan-Meier estimate of either relapse, primary or secondary graft failure or death from all causes
Time frame: 2 years
Event-free survival
Kaplan-Meier estimate of either relapse, primary or secondary graft failure or death from all causes
Time frame: 2 years
Overall cumulative incidence of acute GVHD grade II-IV
Cumulative incidence of patients with acute GVHD II-IV grade, competing risk is death, relapse and primary graft failure
Time frame: 125 days
Incidence of moderate and severe chronic GVHD
Cumulative incidence of patients with moderate and severe chronic GVHD according to NIH 2015 criteria, competing risk is death, relapse and primary graft failure
Time frame: 2 years
Non-relapse mortality analysis
Cumulative incidence of patients with mortality without hematological relapse of malignancy
Time frame: 2 years
GVHD-relapse-free survival analysis
Kaplan-Meier estimate of death, acute GVHD grade III-IV, severe chronic GVHD or relapse
Time frame: 2 years
Cumulative incidence of primary and secondary graft failure
Cumulative primary and secondary graft failure, competing risk is death and relapse
Time frame: 125 days
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