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Filter by:This study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a single dose of Cellgram™ delivered via hepatic artery in patients with decompensated alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
This is a 5-year (+30 days) long term follow up study to evaluate the safety of Livercellgram in subject who participated in and completed the Livercellgram Phase 2 trials (refer to ClinicalTrials.gov.Identifier: NCT01875081).
If the participant voluntarily agrees to participate in the clinical trial before registration, the investigator conducts a screening test to evaluate the participant's suitability. A participant that satisfies all selection and exclusion criteria is assigned randomly to a test group (1-time or 2-time injection group) or control group (no-cell therapy group). Participants assigned to the 1-time injection group conduct cell therapy within 1 month after bone marrow aspiration. Before implementing cell therapy, implement hepatic artery catheterization which inserts a catheter into the hepatic artery through the right aorta femoralis and inject 5X107 autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Participants assigned to the 2-time injection group store 1-time injection amount of mesenchymal stem cells while being cultivated after sampled from the bone marrow, and will re-inject autologous mesenchymal stem cells within 1 month after first injection. Participants will make a total of 8 hospital visits on a 4-week interval after registration, and effectiveness and safety will be evaluated based on a fixed procedure on every visit.
Background & Aim: Bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) have capacity to differentiate into hepatocytes and anti-fibrotic effect in the experimental model. No study was done in humans with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. The researchers investigated the anti-fibrotic effect of BM-MSCs in alcoholic cirrhosis as Phase II clinical study. Methods: Eleven alcoholic cirrhosis patients (M:F = 10:1) with Child-Pugh's class B and maintenance of alcohol abstinence at least 2 months were enrolled. At baseline, all patients received liver biopsy, hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) measurement and serologic tests. BM-MSCs were isolated from each patient's BM and amplified for one month and injected two times at 4, 8week through Rt. hepatic artery. 5x106cells/mL of BM-MSCs were injected in each session. Follow up biopsy, HVPG and relative expression of tissue transforming growth factor-1 (TGF-β1), α smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and collagen-1 by real time RT PCR were measured after 12weeks from 2nd BM-MSC injection. The primary outcome was improvement in patients' histology Aim : The researchers aimed to evaluate safety and effectiveness of new therapy with bone marrow derived autologous mesenchymal stem cell for hepatic failure caused by alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells in patients with cirrhosis of liver. Stem cells will be injected into the hepatic artery. Improvement in various parameters will be observed over 2 years.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether losartan, an angiotensin II blocker prevents the sodium retention in patients with liver cirrhosis and by that reduces the fluid retention. Moreover is the purpose to asses whether losartan is antifibrotic.