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Filter by:Alefacept, also known as Amevive®, is a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States and other countries for the treatment of psoriasis, which is a chronic inflammatory immunological skin condition that can result in chronic dry, red patches that are covered in scales. Alefacept is approved by the FDA for the treatment of psoriasis but not as an anti-rejection medication in transplant patients. It is now being tested in new kidney transplant patients as a supplement to other approved anti-rejection drugs. Alefacept will be used as an investigational drug in this study. The reason for this study is to test whether using Alefacept will inhibit T cells, known as memory cells, using a test named ELISPOT-IFN. In patients with psoriasis, Alefacept inhibits these memory cells. If memory cells specific to your donor can be inhibited by this drug, it might prevent rejection and promote acceptance of the transplanted kidney in a unique manner.
The MORE Observational Study follows real-world renal transplant patients with the data resolution of a monitored, prospective clinical trial for 5 years. In addition to capturing detailed clinical data, the study describes recent important changes in surveillance testing and drug therapy and relates these changes to short and long-term outcomes. Also, the study measures patient compliance over time and details the rationale for modifications of MPA dosing in maintenance and regimen changes after episodes of AR. The MORE study will provide information on era changes in transplant practices and their impact on clinical outcome, new insights on optimizing regimens for discrete patient subsets and new perspectives on the optimal use of MPA therapy.
The purpose of this study is to investigate safety and tolerability of an immediate conversion from Tacrolimus to everolimus in stable renal allograft recipients. Interest in developing CNI-free regimens using other agents such as the proliferation signal inhibitor everolimus.
Patients undergoing living donor renal transplant will be asked to participate to determine whether pre-operative dosing of immunosuppressive medication, and the donor organ receiving an additional dose of antibody induction therapy helps to alleviate potential damage to the transplanted organ post-transplant. A number of lab tests will be done post-transplant to determine how well the kidney is functioning.
The purpose of this study will be to assess the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of rhC1INH in renal transplant recipients with biopsy-confirmed antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) within 30 days of renal transplantation. This study will combine the investigational drug rhC1INH with a standard regimen of plasmapheresis (PP) and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) and compare this to PP and IVIG alone.
The investigators hypothesize that a calcineurin inhibitor-free, steroid-free, co-stimulatory blockade-based immunosuppressive regimen, in combination with a GLP-1 agonist, will reduce the islet mass required to achieve and sustain insulin independence following simultaneous islet-kidney transplantation.
This is a Phase II/III, randomized, open-label, active-controlled, multicenter trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of efalizumab compared with cyclosporine (CsA), when both are given in combination with Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) and corticosteroids after induction therapy with basiliximab, as an immunosuppressant regimen in de novo renal transplantation. A total of 200 subjects undergoing either living or cadaveric renal transplantation will be randomly assigned 1:1 to receive either efalizumab + MMF + corticosteroids or CsA + MMF + corticosteroids.
A new immunosuppressive drug based on the inhibition of an important enzyme in the immune system called JAK3, is being developed by Pfizer to prevent transplant rejection. In this research study, a JAK3 inhibitor or cyclosporine will be given to new kidney transplant patients for 12 months in addition to other standard transplant medications such as prednisone.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of two carbon monoxide doses when administered as an inhaled gas for 1 hour in patients receiving kidney transplants.
Based on the limited amount of experience with plasmapheresis and CytoGam concomitant use, the researchers seek to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, and elimination) of this therapy. The researchers are also interested in evaluating the pharmacokinetics of the various immunosuppressant medications that patients will receive such as tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and daclizumab.