Intrabone Infusion of Cord Blood in Adults With Hematological Malignancies — IBCB  

Hematological Malignancies Clinical Trial

Official title: Intrabone Infusion of Cord Blood Hemopoietic Stem Cells in Adult Patients With High Risk Haematological Malignancies.

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the engraftment of donor hemopoiesis (proportion of transplanted patients with successful engraftment at day +42) in adult patients affected by high risk hematological malignancies after intrabone infusion of cord blood.

Clinical Trial Description

For many hematological malignancies, hemopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant is the only possible treatment. The source of HSC is often bone marrow (BM) or, in the past 10 years, peripheral blood cell (PBSC) mobilized by granulocyte growth factor. Transplant needs a HLA compatible (related or unrelated) donor. Around 10-30% of patients with indication for allogeneic HSC transplant are not able to undergo the procedure because of the lack of a HLA compatible donor. Cord blood (CB) cells represent another possible source, which needs a lower degree of HLA compatibility, this type of transplant, however, offers a lower number of HSC. For this reason, adult patients, until now, could not use this source, because of the not suitable number of cell per kg, of recipient body weight. Recently, in experimental animal models it was observed that intrabone HSC transplant allows, in the recipient, engraftment of donor hemopoiesis by using a 1Log (10-1) lower number of cells compared to the intravenous way (Yahata 2003, Castello 2004). Safety and feasibility of intrabone infusion was verified by two clinical studies on humans: the first was conducted by Ringden O. et al. in 18 patients without any evidence of collateral effects and with complete engraftment of donor hemopoiesis with BM as a source of HSC (Hagglund 1998); the second one was conducted by Frassoni et al. (Frassoni 2008) with CB as the source of HSC.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the intrabone infusion instead of the intravenous one, for the HSC transplant from CB in patients with haematological malignancies when it is not possible to find a HLA matched donor.

We will perform:

• evaluation of the engraftment kinetics;

• evaluation of the chimerism degree at 30, 60, 100 days, 6 months and 1 year after transplant;

• studies on immunological reconstitution and the role of the NK compartment. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hematologic Neoplasms
• Hematological Malignancies
• Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT00886522
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: April 2009
• Completion date: May 2013