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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03786991
Other study ID # MP-31-2019-2960
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date December 16, 2018
Est. completion date December 1, 2025

Study information

Verified date May 2024
Source Université de Sherbrooke
Contact Marie-Hélène Masse, RRT, M.Sc.
Phone 819-346-1110
Email marie-helene.masse3@usherbrooke.ca
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Kidney and liver transplantation are the treatment of choice and are often the last therapeutic option offered to patients with chronic renal and liver failure. More than 70% of kidneys and liver available for transplantation are obtained from donors following neurological death. Unfortunately, compared to living donation, transplant function, graft survival, and recipient survival are consistently inferior with kidneys and liver from neurologically deceased donors. This difference lies with the exacerbated pro-inflammatory state characteristic of deceased donors. Indeed, when neurologic death occurs, the immune system releases substances in the blood that could harm organs and particularly the liver and the kidneys. We believe that achieving a better understanding of the inflammatory processes of organ donors could be greatly informative to design future randomized controlled trial assessing the effect of personalized immunosuppressive therapy on organ donors to ultimately improve the care provided to donors so as to increase the number of organs available for transplantation and enhancing the survival of received grafts


Description:

Severe neurological injuries, such as those observed in neurologically deceased donors, trigger a pro-inflammatory state that activates the immune system, increases vascular permeability, and recruits and activates immune cells in solid organs. The rapid and intense increase in circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1, IL-6, TNF-α) following neurological death, has been referred to as the cytokine storm, one condition that is not seen among living donors. Interestingly, increased expression of TNF-α in the kidney and liver at the time of transplantation has been associated with reduced graft survival and acute rejection. Moreover, numerous studies have suggested that miRNA biomarkers can be targeted as diagnostic or therapeutic molecules in the field of organ transplantation. However, current models of graft injury fail to consider the epigenetic effects of physiological stressors that occurred in neurologically deceased donors. Although several biomarkers have been associated with graft dysfunction, the changes within the donor's inflammatory state, the mechanism underlying these events in donors, and the impacts on recipients are only poorly understood. The investigators propose a multicenter prospective cohort study with the main objective of assessing the pro-inflammatory status of neurologically deceased donors by examining both miRNAs and circulatory cytokines and investigating its association with graft function in the recipient. Blood specimens will be collected at various time points in neurologically deceased liver and kidney donors in 5 organ recovery centres. The investigators hypothesize that in donors, Peak plasma concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines and inflammatory-associated miRNAs targets (between consent and recovery) are associated with an increase in kidney delayed graft function and liver early graft dysfunction in the recipients. Considering that there is a therapeutic arsenal for treating donor cytokine storms( e.g., immunosuppressants) and that new targets based on a highly personalized mechanism could be developed we believe that the knowledge acquired in this research program will make it possible to improve the rate of livers and kidneys recovered from potential donors as well as enhance graft function in recipients.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 105
Est. completion date December 1, 2025
Est. primary completion date December 1, 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 80 Years
Eligibility Phase 1 of the study: Inclusion Criteria: - Patient admitted to the intensive care unit with a serious neurologic lesion - Glasgow Coma Scale score = 4 - Absence of sedation for the last 6 hours - Age = 18 years old Exclusion Criteria: - S. aureus bacteremia - Active neoplasia - Receiving immunosuppressive therapy (including steroids) for > 3 months Specific to potential liver donors: - Hepatic insufficiency defined as i) INR > 1.5, ii) hepatic encephalopathy, iii) AST, ALT > 2 times normal value Specific to potential kidney donors: - Polycystic kidney disease - Chronic renal failure (i.e., eGFR < 60 ml/min) Phase 2 of the study: Inclusion Criteria: - Organ donor after neurologic death (DND) declaration as determined by the attending physician - Consent to organ donation obtained

Study Design


Intervention

Other:
No intervention
No intervention

Locations

Country Name City State
Canada Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal Montréal Quebec
Canada Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Montréal Quebec
Canada Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec- Université Laval Quebec city Quebec
Canada CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS Sherbrooke Quebec

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Université de Sherbrooke Centre de recherche du CHUS

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Kidney delayed graft function Requirement for renal replacement therapy within the first 7 days following transplantation or decrease of < 10% of creatinine after 3 days after transplantation, or creatinine > 250 µmol/l at day 5 with evidence of delayed graft function by renal scintigraphy 7-days post-transplantation
Secondary Liver early graft dysfunction Presence of one of the following three criteria: (i) peak AST or ALT > 2000 U/L during the first 7 days, (ii) bilirubin = 10 mg/dL on day 7 postoperatively, or (iii) INR = 1.6 on day 7 postoperatively 7-days post-transplantation
Secondary Quantification of circulatory cytokines Quantification of IL-1ß, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12 (p70), IL-13, IFN-?, and TNF-a by Luminex (Multiplex human cytokine panel, Millipore) From ICU admission up to organ recovery (5 timepoints(1:ICU admission; 2: consent to organ donation, 3: 4 to 8 hours after sample #2, 4: 24 hours after sample #2; 5: prior to transfer from ICU to operating room); 25 donors).
Secondary Identification of inflammatory-related miRNA targets using micro-transcriptome analyses Sequencing on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 sequencing platform From ICU admission up to organ recovery (5 timepoints (1:ICU admission; 2: consent to organ donation, 3: 4 to 8 hours after sample #2, 4: 24 hours after sample #2; 5: prior to transfer from ICU to operating room) ;25 donors).
Secondary Validation of inflammatory-related miRNA targets using targeted quantification Quantification by RT-qPCR using TaqMan Advanced miRNA Assays From ICU admission up to organ recovery (5 timepoints(1:ICU admission; 2: consent to organ donation, 3: 4 to 8 hours after sample #2, 4: 24 hours after sample #2; 5: prior to transfer from ICU to operating room); 105 donors).
Secondary Validation of circulatory cytokines Quantification of identified cytokines (in the 25 donors cohort) by Luminex (Multiplex, Millipore) From ICU admission up to organ recovery (5 timepoints (1:ICU admission; 2: consent to organ donation, 3: 4 to 8 hours after sample #2, 4: 24 hours after sample #2; 5: prior to transfer from ICU to operating room); 105 donors).
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